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One Book Many Brisbanes 4 (2009)
Anthology of short stories - Winners of Brisbane City Council One book many Brisbanes short story competition 2008 (learn more about this book)
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Orpheus Lost (2007)
by Janette Turner Hospital
In this powerful and passionate new novel, Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of national security, art, terrorism, and love. Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian... (learn more about this book)
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Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel (2004)
by Janette Turner Hospital
"In this bracing, visceral thriller...Hospital continually locates, in human events, the unyieldingly human experience."— San Francisco Chronicle Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked... (learn more about this book)
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Letters to a Fiction Writer (1999)
by Frederick Busch, Rosellen Brown
A collection of inspiring letters from some of our most renowned and respected fiction writers on the craft of writing and the writing life. Contributors include Lee K. Abbott, Charles Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Shelby Foote, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Tobias Wolff,... (learn more about this book)
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Collected Stories: 1970 To 1995 (1995)
by Janette Turner Hospital
Brings together in one distinguished volume all the published stories of this internationally acclaimed author. (learn more about this book)
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Isobars : Stories (1991)
by Janette Turner Hospital
"An isobar," announces the title story in this brilliant collection, "is an imaginary line connecting places of equal pressure on a map." Of course, the narrator adds, "all lines on a map . . . are imaginary." Thus Hospital ( Charades ) begins her cartography, charting those landscapes of thought... (learn more about this book)
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The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983)
by Janette Turner Hospital
For months the charming and forgiving Elizabeth has been trying to get her family together, possibly for the last time before her husband dies. This story is of a family life - its hostilities, explosive secrets and its constricting yet enduring love. The author also wrote "The Ivory Swing". (learn more about this book)
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The Ivory Swing (1982)
by Janette Turner Hospital
The first novel by Australian-Canadian writer Hospital has aged well. Hospital's tale follows a Canadian family's stay in south India. Lise Rodgers captures the pace and poetry of the author's narrative and does an excellent job with the many Indian voices. Her accents not only sound genuine, but... (learn more about this book)
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Oyster
by Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital has been called by the Times Literary Supplement "one of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today." Oyster has received critical acclaim internationally, and was short-listed for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award in... (learn more about this book)
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Dislocations: Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Janette Turner Hospital
From the author of the highly praised novel Oyster, Dislocations is filled with "sensuous, speculative fictions about the experience of dislocation.... Stories develop like poems or meditations." (New York Times Book Review) These stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all... (learn more about this book)
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