| Description |
461 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Learning to swim / Graham Swift -- The cliff / Charles Baxter -- The hottest night of the century / Glenda Adams -- Big fish, little fish / Italo Calvino -- Spindrift / Candida Baker -- Last day of summer / Ian McEwan -- Across the plains, over the mountains and down to the sea / Frank Moorhouse -- Pages from Cold Point / Paul Bowles -- The fish-scale shirt / Ruth Fainlight -- Radiant heat / Robert Drewe -- Unnamed islands in the unknown sea / Keri Hulme -- Getting ready / Barry Hannah -- The water was dark and it went forever down / Tim Winton -- Redfish / Rick Bass -- Postcards from surfers / Helen Garner -- So much water so close to home / Raymond Carver -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The catch / Nadine Gordimer -- Great barrier reef / Diane Johnson -- The seaside houses / John Cheever -- A change of scene / David Malouf -- The midnight love feast / Michel Tournier -- Lifeguard / John Updike -- Bluegill / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The beach / Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-461) |
| Subject |
Beaches in literature.
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Beaches -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Sea stories.
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Drewe, Robert, 1943-
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| LC no. |
94110258 |
| ISBN |
0330274171 (paperback):) |
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