A couple of things before the end : stories
O'Beirne, Sean2020
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This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australia's least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the tanbark. In 2015, two sisters text in Kmart about how to manage their irascible, isolated mum. Then, in the near future, a racist demagogue addresses the press the day after his electoral triumph. As the cities heat up and lose their water, a lady from one of the 'better suburbs' makes every effort to get her family into an exclusive gated community. Outstandingly original, bitingly satirical and written in a remarkable range of voices, A Couple of Things Before the End is a powerful vision of where we are - and where we may be headed.
A couple of things before the end : stories / Sean O'Beirne.
O'Beirne, Sean, author
Melbourne, Australia : Black Inc., 2020.©2020
199 pages ; 21 cm
9781760641283 (paperback)
A823.4
English
365373
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | OBEI | Available |