Selected Stories: Text Classics
Text Classics
$17.46
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2017
Summary
Introduced by Melanie Joosten, Selected Stories is an unmissable new collection of twenty highlights from Amy Witting’s dazzling body of acclaimed short fiction, spanning her fifty-year career.
Amy Witting was a master of the short story, the genre in which she felt ‘most at home’. Her subjects - childhood and school, marriage and loneliness, the cruelty of men and women - are rendered in a crisp, understated style, at once compassionate and unsentimental. This new selection …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925498158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925498158 |
| Author: | Amy Witting |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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‘Brilliant distillations…tinged with latent tenderness.’
‘Brilliant distillations…tinged with latent tenderness.’ * New York Times *
About The Author
Amy Witting
Amy Witting was born in Annandale, an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1918. She attended Sydney University, then taught French and English in state schools. Beginning late in life she published six novels, including The Visit, I for Isobel, Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop and Maria’s War; two collections of short stories; two books of verse, Travel Diary and Beauty Is the Straw; and her Collected Poems. She had numerous poems and short stories published in magazines such as Quadrant and the New Yorker. Witting was awarded the 1993 Patrick White Prize. Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop won the Age Book of the Year Award. Amy Witting died in 2001.
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