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Blood And Water (short Story Collection)
''Blood and Water'' is a 1993 short story collection by Australian author Tim Winton. Its contents are drawn from the previous two short story collections, '' Scission and Other Stories'' and ''Minimum Of Two ''Minimum Of Two'' is the second collection of short stories by multi award-winning Australian writer Tim Winton. It is an anthology which consists of 14 short stories, seven of which feature the characters Jerra, Rachel and Sam Nilsam: *''Forest ...'', as well as some previously uncollected stories. Critical reception "Tim Winton shows himself, in this collection of his briefer pieces, painfully live to all the ways that people can be damaged (and not only people)...The book's chief focus, though, is on youngish and fairly recently married couples, usually short of money, in poor jobs or in no jobs at all...Towards these characters and the adjustments, crises and estrangements they face, Winton brings a tough sensitivity reminiscent of Raymond Carver or Andre Dubus. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picador (imprint)
Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Picador was launched in the UK in 1972 by renowned publisher Sonny Mehta as a literary imprint of Pan Books with the aim of publishing outstanding international writing in paperback editions only. In 1990, Picador started publishing its own hardcovers. Picador in the UK continues to publish writers from all over the world, bringing international authors to an English-language readership and providing a platform for voices that are often not heard. The Picador list in the UK includes literary fiction; new, relevant and challenging fiction; narrative non-fiction; authoritative, cultural non-fiction; and the best contemporary poetry including former Poet Laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy and Kae Tempest, 2013 winner of the Ted Hughes Award for their work ''Brand New Ancients''. Picador is the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. Life and career Timothy John Winton was born on 4 August 1960 in Subiaco, an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. He grew up in the northern Perth suburb of Karrinyup, before he moved with his family to the regional city of Albany at the age of 12.Steger, Jason (2008) "It's a risky business", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 25–27 April 2008, Books: p. 29 Whilst at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, '' An Open Swimmer'', which won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, launching his writing career. He has stated that he wrote "the best part of three books while at university".Steger, Jason (2008) "Its a risky business" in ''The Sydney Morning He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Collection
A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author. A short story collection is distinguished from an anthology of fiction, which would contain work by several authors (e.g., ''Les Soirées de Médan''). The stories in a collection may or may not share a tone, theme, setting, or characters with one another. Composition of a collection Short story collections are made up of smaller texts—the individual short stories—in order to form a superior whole.Santi, Mara (2014). "Performative Perspectives on Short Story Collections". ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' (12): 143–154. ISSN 2031-2970. In spite of this, each short story does not lose any of its meaning or narrative independence by being included in a collection. This does not mean that short stories do not gain any new meaning from being included in a collection, though. Because each story's context has changed, surrounded by other stories with their own me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scission And Other Stories
''Scission and Other Stories'', sometimes simply ''Scission'', is a 1985 collection of short stories by Australian author Tim Winton. It won the 1985 Western Australian Council Literary Award, and was also 1985 Joint Winner Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction. Contents This was Winton's first collection of stories. There are 13 short stories: *''Secrets'' *''A Blow, a Kiss'' *''Getting Ahead'' *''My Father's Axe'' *''Wake'' *''Lantern Stalk'' *''Thomas Awkner Floats'' *''Wilderness'' *''Neighbours'' *''A Measure of Eloquence'' *''The Oppressed'' *''The Woman at the Well'' *''Scission''. The stories are described as, " ... spare, jagged stories in which people struggle with change and disintegration ... These startling stories deal with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. Honest, beautiful, shattering tales - vintage Winton." Themes The title ''Scission'' describes the action or state of cutting or b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minimum Of Two
''Minimum Of Two'' is the second collection of short stories by multi award-winning Australian writer Tim Winton. It is an anthology which consists of 14 short stories, seven of which feature the characters Jerra, Rachel and Sam Nilsam: *''Forest Winter*'' *''No Memory Comes'' *''Gravity*'' *''The Water was Dark'' *''Nilsam's Friend*'' *''Minimum of Two'' *''Distant Lands'' *''Laps'' *''Bay of Angels*'' *''The Strong One*'' *''Holding'' *''More*'' *''Death Belongs to the Dead, His Father Told Him, and Sadness to the Sad'' *''Blood and Water*'' Stories marked with * indicate stories which feature the recurring characters Jerra, Rachel and Sam Nilsam. Although many of the stories do not contain references to any particular setting, it is most likely that all stories in the anthology are set in Perth, Western Australia, around the late (post-World War II) 20th century. Most of the stories deal with relationships which are placed under hardship and stress, it also deals with the the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Short Story Collections
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Australian Short Story Collections
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
