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Author Dechian, Sonja, author

Title An astronaut's life / by Sonja Dechian
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Text Publishing, 2015
Melbourne The Text Publishing Company, 2015

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Description 253 pages ; 24 cm
Contents After Francis Crick -- The race -- Charles Darwin's revenge -- The architect -- Nights at the house -- The falling -- The foreman -- Incurable -- An astronaut's life
Summary In sparkling prose, Sonja Dechian's profound, moving and wry stories speak to our deepest yearning for connection and the inevitability of our isolation. From a terrorist cell of cyber-bullying victims working to annihilate the digital memory of their humiliation to a pandemic that leaves grieving parents battling for the media spotlight, these affecting tales invite us to examine our inability to control the world around us - and our own desires
Analysis Australian
Subject Short stories, Australian.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Isolation (Philosophy) -- Fiction.
Australian fiction -- 21st century.
Australian fiction.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Australian fiction.
ISBN 9781922147929 (paperback)