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Napoleon's roads / David Brooks.

By: Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland, 2016.Description: 161 pages. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780702253911 :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3
Summary: David Brooks' mastery of the written word is both evocative and compelling in this, his fourth collection of stories and his first in almost twenty years. These pieces capture unforgettable images of streetscapes and heartscapes, grappling with concepts of time and memory, tenderness, morality, creativity and solitude. Profound and illuminating, Napoleon's Roads is a celebration of the rich possibility of language and expression from one of the finest poets and prose stylists in contemporary Australian literature.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Short Stories
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Short stories BRO Available 060271
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161)

David Brooks' mastery of the written word is both evocative and compelling in this, his fourth collection of stories and his first in almost twenty years. These pieces capture unforgettable images of streetscapes and heartscapes, grappling with concepts of time and memory, tenderness, morality, creativity and solitude. Profound and illuminating, Napoleon's Roads is a celebration of the rich possibility of language and expression from one of the finest poets and prose stylists in contemporary Australian literature.

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