Inherited
Amanda Curtin
In Inherited, Amanda Curtin gives us a selection of nineteen beautifully crafted short stories that capture the ebb and flow of human relations. These are stories concerned with the gifts and burdens we inherit from the world and those we love, and the traces we leave behind.
Curtin’s characters range from the odd and quirky to the heartbreakingly ordinary: a dancer in a wheelchair, a collector of corks, one woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs, a sound designer stealing the sound of a room, a photographer distilling grief in his lens, a man who hears his dead wife’s voice, a poet whose voice has disappeared.
Book Club Notes
Amanda Curtin
Amanda Curtin is a writer and book editor, who lives with her husband and cat in an old house in an old suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Her first novel, The Sinkings, was published in 2008 to...
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WorldAUD$26.95 / NZD$36.95
Format
Paperback, 198 x 128 mm228 pages
ISBN
9781742582931Category
Fiction and poetryEbook RRP
AUD$12.95Ebook Format
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9781742583112Ebook Availability
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Praise for Inherited:
Only an experienced editor (for two decades Cutin’s day job) could understand how to achieve such graceful economy of utterance. Only a born writer – the kind of novelist who produced a debut assured as 2008’s [The] Sinkings – could make those few words count.
— Geordie Williamson, Chief Literary Critic, The Weekend Australian
Collections of short stories have been eclipsed by the novel in recent times but there are signs readers are coming back to short stories and every strong story collection such as Inherited makes a case for this change.
— Brenda Walker, Author, The Weekend Australian
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