Meatloaf in Manhattan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Australian.

Australia--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Transit Lounge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'As deviously weighty as a good pop song.' - Anson Cameron, author of Stealing Picasso, Nice Shootin', Cowboy and Silences Long Gone. In these sixteen tales, Robert Power captures the joys and frailties of seemingly ordinary lives with extraordinary perception and wit. The stories take us from a Manhattan diner to a train station in Vietnam, from the Wild West to small town Australia, in a dazzling display of faith in language and in life. A man staying in New York pretends to be blind and inveigles his way through the defences of a lonely diner waitress; a child beggar in Vietnam makes his de

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Firenze & Snowball; Meatloaf in Manhattan; She Calls Her Boy Amazing; The Visit; The Story of Little-Path and Marcus Kellogg; The General and the Billiard Cue; The I Zingari Cap; Synge's Chair; Zorro the Chess Master; The Shoe Lovers; Lemon Juice and Snakebite; Monsignor Di Vincente & The Heartmaker; The Postman Gets a Letter; The Mayor's Fear of the Penalty; Grooming; Buffalo Bill and the Psychiatrist

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781921924651

1921924659

OCLC:

870228675