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ISBN: 9781922186836
Year: 2016
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Description:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Award,
the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction and the Victorian Premier's Award for
Fiction
Big is a hefty cross-dresser and Little is little.
Both are long used to the routines of boarding house life in the inner suburbs
of Melbourne, but Little, with the prospect of an inheritance, is worrying Big
with by indulging in dreams of home owenership. Little's cousin, Angus, is a
solitary man who designs lake-scapes for city councils, and fireproof houses
for the bushfire zone. A handy man, he meets Jasmin — an academic who races in
her ideas as much as in her runners. Her head is set on publishing semiotics
books on semiotics, her heart is turned towards her stalled personal life. All
four are waiting, for something, if not someone.
'I knew Philip was a poet but it was obvious to me
by the final round that he was also a wonderful storyteller. As you are about
to see, I was right.' —John Clarke
'Stories with flashes of poetry and sudden insight
and such profound compassion that they should be labelled — WARNING: Could make
the reader kinder. Send a copy to a politician'. — Sue Woolfe
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781922186836
Year: 2016
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Description:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Award,
the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction and the Victorian Premier's Award for
Fiction
Big is a hefty cross-dresser and Little is little.
Both are long used to the routines of boarding house life in the inner suburbs
of Melbourne, but Little, with the prospect of an inheritance, is worrying Big
with by indulging in dreams of home owenership. Little's cousin, Angus, is a
solitary man who designs lake-scapes for city councils, and fireproof houses
for the bushfire zone. A handy man, he meets Jasmin — an academic who races in
her ideas as much as in her runners. Her head is set on publishing semiotics
books on semiotics, her heart is turned towards her stalled personal life. All
four are waiting, for something, if not someone.
'I knew Philip was a poet but it was obvious to me
by the final round that he was also a wonderful storyteller. As you are about
to see, I was right.' —John Clarke
'Stories with flashes of poetry and sudden insight
and such profound compassion that they should be labelled — WARNING: Could make
the reader kinder. Send a copy to a politician'. — Sue Woolfe