We are not the same anymore : stories / Chris Somerville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Somerville, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Australian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal><I>We are Not the Same Anymore</I> is a collection of short fiction about people trying to connect with each other and the difficulties of finding intimacy. These stories play out the small catastrophes of everyday life. A man turns up at his daughter's birthday party with a goldfish in an ice-cream container. On the way to collect firewood, a woman and her teenaged neighbor crash in a snowstorm. An unwilling son helps his sister and father put up posters for a missing dog named Michael. Familiar and endearing, Chris Somerville's characters are

Contents:

Front Cover ; Author biography; Title page; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Earthquake; Aquarium; Snow on the mountain; Parachute; The Chinese student; Trouble; Loss; Hinterland; Room; Giraffe; Travelling through the air; Athletics; Sleeping with the light on; Drowning man; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7022-5093-7

0-7022-5092-9

OCLC:

843202576