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ENCOUNTERS: Modern Australian Short Stories

Short stories by Australia's leading authors including Tim Winton, David Malouf, Margo Lanagan, Sharon Rundle, Anthony Lynch and many nore

From the back cover: All the stories in this collection centre on encounters of varying kinds: meetings that range from the intensely erotic, as in Sophie Cunningham's Geography to Sandy McCutcheon's moving true story of his first meeting with his adult daughter, whom he had tried to trace since her infancy. Barry Oakley has cast his net wide to assemble this treasury of Australia's leading writers in a broad range of genres.


Cover Image: Charles Blackman The Kiss
etching 21/40, Plate size, 29 x 20.5cm, Private collection.