A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781760641283 Author(s): Sean O'Beirne Format: Paperback Illustrator: Tony Fleecs Language: English Year: 2020 Publisher: Black Inc. Pages: 224

Description: A bitingly satirical story collection that takes readers on an extraordinary tour of the old and new Australia - and to a very frightening futureThis brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia.A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australia's least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the tanbark. In 2015, two sisters text in Kmart about how to manage their irascible, isolated mum.Then, in the near future, a racist demagogue addresses the press the day after his electoral triumph. As the cities heat up and lose their water, a lady from one of the 'better suburbs' makes every effort to get her family into an exclusive gated community.Outstandingly original, bitingly satirical and written in a remarkable range of voices, A Couple of Things Before the End is a powerful vision of where we are - and where we may be headed.

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