Like a House on Fire

Häftad, Engelska, 201215+ år

349 kr

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From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a newcollection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House onFire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects theirironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense ofhumour. In ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, a young woman working as acleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor’s orders. In‘Cross-Country’, a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex’s newlife. And in ‘Ashes’, a son accompanies his mother on a journey toscatter his father’s remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in thebackground. Cate Kennedy’s poignant short stories find the beauty andtragedy in illness and mortality, life and love.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-09-26
Mått135 x 210 x undefined mm
Vikt304 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Läsålder15+ år
Antal sidor288
FörlagScribe Publications
ISBN9781922070067
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Stella Prize 2013 (Australia)

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Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011. She lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north-east Victoria.