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Exotic pleasures
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ISBN: 0330265504 9780330265508 Year: 1979 Publisher: London : Pan books,

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Choose Somebody Else.
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ISBN: 0648215938 9780648215936 9780648215929 064821592X Year: 2018 Publisher: Melbourne Wild Dingo Press

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An enthralling, entertaining and compelling collection of short stories that follow the great Yiddish storytelling traditions in tone and style: tackling life's questions, big and banal, with an evocative, humorous and thought-provoking authority. In each one, Fein excels in drawing the reader into another reality, to experience, to become part of the story and the characters' lives as they unfold. "Oh Lord, I know we are the Chosen People but just for once couldn't you choose somebody else?" is an old plea, heartsick yet ironic, and with it these stories lift off on their journey around the world. From Melbourne to the Gold Coast, from Montreux to Jerusalem the tales examine the question of whether it is better to be chosen or ignored by a capricious creator.The stories are discrete but connected by their representations of various generations of the tormented. A mediaeval legend taken from the Talmud is gentle with gender ambiguity yet follows it to its unforeseen end. A tale of magical realism tells of a rabbi, a student who falls in love with him and a shadow-soul from a distant era. The three of them dance together in the present but the shadow-soul takes the rabbi back to a time of corruption and evil.There are depressive lawyers and drunken students and there is a dreamer who finds herself inside the world of the hard-boiled detective. Finally, there is a taste of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the saga of girls living together at an exclusive Swiss school.Both darkness and humour are brought into play to chronicle the disturbances - large and small - bedevilling the protagonists' lives. Almost all of them are engaged in problematic attempts to flee reality. Many suffer from the legacy of history's nightmares yet somehow, with mordant wit and melancholic acuity so characteristic of their tribe, many of them find a way to make their journey worthwhile.


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Eyrie
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ISBN: 9780143571346 Year: 2014 Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Penguin Books,

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Picnic at hanging rock
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ISBN: 9780099577140 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Vintage Books,

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It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned...


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The garden book
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ISBN: 1920882103 1922146072 Year: 2005 Publisher: Giramondo Publishing,

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Brian Castro's new novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War.


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Wattle and dope
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Year: 1988 Publisher: North Ryde : Angus & Robertson Publishers,

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The Australian novel 1830-1980: a thematic introduction
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ISBN: 0820437921 9780820437927 Year: 1998 Publisher: Frankfurt a.M.: Lang,

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The Good reading guide : 100 critics review contemporary Australian fiction
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ISBN: 0869141678 Year: 1989 Publisher: Fitzroy, Victoria : McPhee Gribble Publishers,

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Liars : Australian new novelists.
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ISBN: 0140097880 Year: 1988 Publisher: Ringwood : Penguin books,

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Decade : a selection of contemporary Western Australian short fiction
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ISBN: 0909144540 Year: 1982 Publisher: Fremantle : Fremantle Arts Centre Press,

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