The Best Australian Stories 2010

✍ Scribed by Kennedy, Cate (Editor)

• Book ID: 108032022
• Publisher: Black Inc.
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781863954952

✦ Synopsis

'There is little to match the pleasurable, exhilarating rush when we know we are in the hands of a writer with authority. Their power is like a kind of charisma - we allow ourselves to be willingly, absolutely persuaded.' - Cate Kennedy

In The Best Australian Stories 2010 , Cate Kennedy presents a seductive line-up of the year's most exciting short fiction, featuring the best work from publications around the country alongside pieces published here for the first time.

A literary feud unfolds, blow by comical blow, in the books pages of a Sydney newspaper. Ned Kelly's mother has her day in court. And as flood waters slowly rise in a small Australian town, a woman quietly watches and waits.

By turns playful, heart-wrenching, intimate and exuberant, these twenty-nine stories reveal the strength and variety of Australian fiction today. The authors include first-timers as well as established masters, and the result is a stimulatingly diverse...