This taste for silence / Modern & contemporary fiction. Short stories, Australian. Australian fiction
O'Callaghan, Amanda,
This taste for silence / Amanda O'Callaghan (author). - 197 pages ; 20 cm. - Uqp short story series .
Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O'Callaghan. The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy. Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a 'taste for silence'.
9780702260377 0702260371 9780702262029 0702262021 9780702262012 0702262013 9780702262036 070226203X
Modern & contemporary fiction.
Short stories, Australian.
Australian fiction--21st century.
Australian
Short stories.
A823.4
This taste for silence / Amanda O'Callaghan (author). - 197 pages ; 20 cm. - Uqp short story series .
Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O'Callaghan. The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy. Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a 'taste for silence'.
9780702260377 0702260371 9780702262029 0702262021 9780702262012 0702262013 9780702262036 070226203X
Modern & contemporary fiction.
Short stories, Australian.
Australian fiction--21st century.
Australian
Short stories.
A823.4