The colour of kerosene and other stories / Cameron Raynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raynes, Cameron, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Australian--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism. A welfare worker is asked to spy on a colleague. And in the award-winning title story, a taxi driver accepts a fare he knows he shouldn't: 'They headed east, the nude hills of the Geraldton plains, stripped of their trees a century before, leaning into them on both sides as the car climbed into the marginal country. Behind him, Luke heard the gurgle of fluid sluicing out of a bladder and into a cup, smelt the sweet stink

Contents:

Cover; About the author; Title page; Imprint; Dedication; Contents; The Colour of Kerosene; Granite Country; Sunlight; Semaphore; The Wind and the Salt; Lives Less Valuable; The Eight-Hundred-Dollar Cat; You Matter to God; Girl, Reflected; Conditional Release; The Smell of Touch; The Gap Between the Sandbars; Landscapes; The Dress; Acknowledgements; Wakefield Press

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781743051290

1743051298

9781743051306

1743051301

9781743051207

1743051204

OCLC:

795276351