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In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of collective memory and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited beliefs. A mother moves north with her young children who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation's guilt in pictures of its people's hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America's Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has left behind.
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Publisher
University of Queensland PresseBook ISBN
9780702248382
Year
2016Table of contents
- Cover
- Author bio
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Brisbane
- The tank
- Adeline
- Cotton
- All you really have to do is be here
- In the mornings we would sometimes hear him singing
- The taxidermistâs wife
- Vending machine at the end of the world
- Dixieland
- Belonging to Sonja
- Suitable for a lampshade
- Treacherous
- View
- Swan dive
- Hotels
- Heart of gold
- Raising the wreck
- Repairs
- House
- Into the arms of the parade
- Souvenirs
- Scar from a trick with a knife
- Sometimes beautiful, sometimes magical
- St Leonards Avenue
- Tarcutta wake
- Acknowledgements
- Imprint page