Salt : selected stories and essays / Bruce Pascoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Australian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages)

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Black Inc., [2019]

Summary:

A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. This volume of Bruce Pascoe's best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, traverses his long career and explores his enduring fascination with Australia's landscape, culture and history. Featuring new fiction alongside Pascoe's most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction - including from his modern classic Dark Emu - Salt distils the intellect, passion and virtuosity of his work. It's time all Australians know the range and depth of this most marvellous of our writers.

Contents:

Country / A letter to Barry

Reaping seeds of discontent

Thylacine

The imperial mind

Choosing

True hunters

Lament / Temper democratic, bias Australian

Lament for three hands

Andrew Bolt's disappointment

Big Yengo

Rearranging the dead cat

Sea wolves / Sea wolves

Too upsetting

Water harvest

The unapproved day

Whale and serpent

Embrasure / Embrasure

Franks is dead

Peaceable kingdom

Dear John

The bridge near Nowa Nowa

An enemy of the people

Tracks / Honeypot two shots two pots and Miss Hermansberg

A letter to Marlo

Rene of Rainbird Creek

Soldier goes to ground

The headless horseman of the drummer

Coffins

Dawn

Culturelines / Here is a story I'd like you to tell to that old man

Primary colours

Pittosporum

Staff dining

The Galapogos duct

Left-handed woman

Publication details.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781743821053

1743821050