We All Lived in Bondi Then
We All Lived in Bondi Then
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Years and years ago before I started my career in books, I picked up 'Between a Wolf and a Dog' and it was a slap in the face. I hadn't read much Australian fiction at all, had never heard of Richard Flanagan or Helen Garner. I was reading aimlessly. Blain was everything I'd wanted as a reader. So much life in the characters, both good and bad, the 'it is what it is anow move forward with it', and it's all here in this collection. Blain writes familial trauma, her lived experience, but it's beneficial. - Ben, MarketingPublisher's description
From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories.
A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes the course of a life.
In We All Lived in Bondi Then, beloved Australian author Georgia Blain returns to her resonant themes of relationships and family, illness and health, love and death. Composed in Blain's final years, these nine stories grapple with large questions on a human scale, brimming with her trademark acuity, nuance, and warmth.
'With the gift of these nine moving and shapely stories comes the bonus of an elegant and elegiac foreword by Charlotte Wood, who knew the author well ... Each story is an intricate masterpiece of suspense, rendered in clean and graceful prose. Each is agonising, haunting, harrowing, the characters grounded in sharp reality ... The collection is concerned with facing reality, with looking death in the eye. As grim as this sounds, the stories are composed with a lyrical honesty and an unforgettable strength ... This is a powerful and vivid tapestry of life and love and the brutal quirks of human destiny.'
-Carmel Bird, The Sydney Morning Herald
' Blain returns to some of her favourite, and most resonant, themes- family and relationships, love and death, health and illness ... Although the book is suffused with loss and grief, there are flashes of wry humour and hard-won insight.'
-Nicole Abadee, The Sydney Morning Herald
'It's an exquisite collection, moving, at times funny, and so readable.'
-Mark Rubbo, Readings
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BOOK DETAILS
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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781761380730
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Publisher: Scribe Publications
Number of pages: 176
Width (mm): 144
Height (mm): 216
Depth (mm): 15
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