Tarcutta Wake: Stories
by Josephine Rowe
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In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of collective memory and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited beliefs. A mother moves north with her young children? who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation's guilt in pictures of its show more people's hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America's Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has left behind. show lessTags
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Josephine Rowe is an Australian writer of short fiction, poetry and essays. Her story collections include How a Moth Becomes a Boat and Tarcutta Wake. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Iowa Review, Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Stories, and The Monthly. Currently, she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at show more Stanford University. She was awarded the 2016 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story 'Glisk'. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- -for time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams - Dedication
- To Patrick
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- And she had this way of swivelling her head round, like an owl to talk to you as she drove, except not like an owl because the skin of her neck creased up in folds and she looked so old when that happened, though she wasn't, ... (show all)not then, and Luke would lean over and say, Watch the road, Mum.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)How little we can see, even from here.
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