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An Astronaut's Life

✍ Scribed by Dechian, Sonja

Book ID: 108963356
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 143 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781922147929

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✦ Synopsis

In sparkling prose, Sonja Dechian's profound, moving and wry stories speak to our deepest yearning for connection and the inevitability of our isolation.

From a terrorist cell of cyber-bullying victims working to annihilate the digital memory of their humiliation to a pandemic that leaves grieving parents battling for the media spotlight, these affecting tales invite us to examine our inability to control the world around us�and our own desires.

An Astronaut's Life is a beautiful debut from an intelligent new voice in Australian writing.

Sonja Dechian is a writer, editor, and radio and TV producer. She has co-edited two collections of stories about the Australian refugee experience, Dark Dreams and No Place Like Home (Wakefield Press).

'Head-spinning, sometimes spine-tingling. Every story here is a strange and remarkable gem.' Wayne Macauley

'By the final page I was fully immersed in the book's world�one both...

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