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On love and loss, sex and death, food and gardening—a beautifully crafted new collection by Australia's most assured short story writer Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that's what he did. It's a given. It's the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is: why did Mrs Bluebeard feel utterly unable to resist opening the door? Don't we all think, when it comes to these stories, that we'd have made it work? So much freedom, and one tiny forbidden thing. Not important, a token in fact. So easy to obey so small a prohibition. We think, if I had been Eve I wouldn't have picked the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, I wouldn't have given a piece to Adam. I and my progeny down the millennia would still be multiplying fruitfully in the Garden of Eden.
Life in all its richness is reflected in this superb new collection from one of Australia's most acclaimed short story writers. These stories are brimming with surprising characters—the virgin and the pornographer, the adulterer, the translator, the defecting diplomat—and the inconveniences of modernity. In the end, though, it is a collection of stories about happiness, its circuitous routes, its surprising outcomes, and the consequences when we fail in its pursuit.
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Marion Halligan is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer. The author of The Point, The Taste of Memory, and Valley of Grace, she has received the ACT Book of the Year Award and been short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and the Miles Franklin Award.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1742376673
- ISBN 13 9781742376677
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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