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Author Adelaide, Debra, author

Title Letter to George Clooney / Debra Adelaide
Published Sydney : Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2013
Sydney [NSW] : Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2013
c2013

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Description 295 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents The sleepers in that quiet earth -- If you see something, say something -- The form of solemnisation of matrimony -- Virgin bones -- The Harp Society -- Glory in the flower -- Chance -- Writing [in] the new millennium -- The pirate map -- The moon will do -- Harder than your husband -- Airlock -- Letter to George Clooney -- Author's note
Summary Debra Adelaide's new collection of short stories intricately maps both the sublime and the mundane landscape of ordinary lives, with her trademark dark wit and luminous intelligence. In Glory in the Flower, distinguished but disillusioned British poet, Bill, crosses the world on the promise of a prestigious literary festival only to find himself roughing it with an unlikely group of amateur poets, with surprising results. One man's attempt to negotiate the Australian taxation system reads like a noir thriller in 'The Pirate Map', and the minefield of internet dating explored in 'Chance' artfully balances the absurd and the dark side of the human psyche. 'Harder than Your Husband' follows a serious-minded administrator as he attempts to navigate the induction of a new, and rather perplexing, employee. And the final eclipsing story, 'Letter to George Clooney', opens a door into a world of terror and deprivation: searing in its devastating restraint, it demonstrates why Adelaide is one of the finest Australian writers of her generation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Australian fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Short stories, Australian.
Taxation -- Australia -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 2014407242
ISBN 9781742613093 (paperback)