TY - BOOK AU - Lurie,Morris TI - Cleaning the stables: thirteen stories, sixteen poems, and a recipe SN - 9781459698925 U1 - A823.3 23 PY - 2016///] CY - [Sydney] PB - Read How You Want KW - Short stories, Australian KW - Australian poetry KW - Short stories KW - lcgft KW - Large type books KW - lcsh N1 - Originally published: Ormond, VIC: Hybrid Publishers, 2015 N2 - Shortly before his death in 2014, an elderly man brought his publisher friend a crumpled purple folder filled with type - written pages. Cleaning the Stables he called it: a selection of stories, poems and a recipe that he didn't want left behind. In this posthumous collection we are given a feast of mostly unpublished treasures from the great literary life of Morris Lurie. Written in the wry and ironic style he was celebrated for, these pieces are sometimes odd, always clever, and at times profoundly moving as they give us insight into a man who had a truly unique way of interpreting and writing about the world around him ER -