The best Australian stories 2008
By: edited by Delia Falconer
Series: Australasian literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (text)
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781863952958
Subjects: Australian Short stories
Other titles: Best Australian stories two thousand and eight; Best Australian stories
Description: In The Best Australian Stories 2008, Delia Falconer brings together the year's most exciting short fiction. Featuring established masters as well as fresh new voices, this is a perfect book for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing. Contributors include: Nam Le, Robert Drewe, Emily Ballou, Nicholas Shakespeare, Bernard Cohen, Frank Moorhouse, Marion Halligan, Brenda Walker, plus many more. -- Publisher details.
Notes: In English.
Table of contents: title: His blue period  -- Deborah Robertson; title: The Aquarium at night  -- Robert Drewe; title: The Poetics of space  -- Karen Hitchcock; title: Natural history (World-Swimming)  -- Patrick West; title: Jap floral  -- Claire Aman; title: On the splice  -- Emily Ballou; title: The White hole of Bombay  -- Nicholas Shakespeare; title: Crackers  -- Rudi Soman; title: Distracted by children  -- Ellen Rodger; title: The Valley of Grace  -- Marion Halligan; title: Gardening for pleasure  -- Tony Birch; title: Every cure  -- Julie Millard; title: Turning off the lights  -- Anna Krien; title: Music for airports  -- Patrick Holland; title: The Patient's letter  -- Will Elliott; title: As green as blue  -- Isabelle Li; title: Nine days  -- Laura Jean McKay; title: Isnis  -- Tim Richards; title: Two weeks  -- Dorothy Johnston; title: All the things you couldn't say  -- Davina Bell; title: War against the Ungulates  -- Bernard Cohen; title: The Knabstrupper  -- A.G. McNeill; title: Escargot Postel  -- Chloe Walker; title: Revisions: A Found story  -- Frank Moorouse; title: Meeting Elise  -- Nam Le; title: Big animals -- Brenda Walker.