The Secret Lives of Men - Softcover

Blain, Georgia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145967037X ISBN 13: 9781459670372

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2013

Synopsis

In these thirteen short stories, Georgia Blain examines human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these tales frequently linger at the edges ; their longings and failures exerting a subterranean pull on the women in their lives.

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About the Author

Georgia Blain is the author of a memoir, essays, short stories, and the novels Closed for Winter, Strange Times, Too Close to Home, and Darkwater, her first young-adult book. She has been short-listed for numerous awards, including the NSW and SA premier’s literary awards and the Nita B. Kibble Award.

Review

“Richly imagined characters . . . told with lovely restraint. The authenticity of the writing is such that you feel you are standing in the shoes of these characters whose lives are at a particularly intense point.” —Herald Sun

“Subtle, beautifully paced stories . . . a finely tuned collection, thoughtfully written and arranged, with profound and unsettling things to say about love, loneliness, and risk.” — Denise O’Dea, Australian Book Review

“Blain’s achievement with the short story form is to render it a mid point between the overt artifice of fiction and the covert artifice of life-writing . . . her stories fill up with ambiguity . . . characterised by an irresolution that mimics the resistance of experience to shape and comprehension.” —Stella Clarke, Weekend Australian

“Many adjectives have been used to describe Georgia Blain’s work, including evocative, powerful, atmospheric, haunting, rich, thought-provoking, skilful, uncompromising and finely detailed—all of which apply to this collection of short stories.” —Bookseller & Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 145967037X
• ISBN 13: 9781459670372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252