| Description |
229 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Ground : The Invisible boy / Earth. A Wide Lens : Headfirst / Ghost gums / Dance / Over many seas. The Leopard : The leopard story / The forgotten gods / Rasa-Lila |
| Summary |
The Dark Wet is the first collection of short stories by Jess Huon. Richly lyrical and beautifully felt, it explores the struggle towards a potent sense of self and belonging, expressed in three sequences of stories: that of Jed Harp, his lover Danny Hess, and his poet sister Alexandra; of Bell and Oliver, a couple moving between Melbourne and San Francisco; and of a young woman confronting religion and sex in a Christian community in India. Drawing on a rich range of settings, from the lush and vast Top End of Australia, to the mountains of India, and vibrant urban centres, The Dark Wet is a brutally honest portrayal of lives grasping at fluidity and transgression, and the possibility of redemption and change |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- 21st century.
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Short stories, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9781920882679 (paperback) |
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