The Travellers and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Davies, Carys |
| ISBN: | 978-1-925240-76-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. On a red island in a rose-coloured sea, russet-haired women dream of a fisherman with hair black as night. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins visit a women's asylum, and the course of literary history is changed forever. Spare, precise and charged with wit, these award-winning...
More DescriptionIn a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. On a red island in a rose-coloured sea, russet-haired women dream of a fisherman with hair black as night. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins visit a women's asylum, and the course of literary history is changed forever.
Spare, precise and charged with wit, these award-winning stories are set in places near, far and imaginary. Carys Davies takes us to a world where the lines between reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, madness and sanity begin to dissolve.
Combining two collections - Some New Ambush and Frank O'Connor Award-winner The Redemption of Galen Pike - The Travellers and Other Stories is a work of exceptional talent and original vision.