Meatloaf in Manhattan / Robert Power.
Publication details: Yarraville, Vic. : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2014.Description: 214 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781921924644 (paperback)
- Australian fiction
- Short stories
- Short stories, Australian
- Short stories
- Short stories, Australian -- 21st century
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Vietnam -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Australian
- 823.0108994 23
- PR9617.32
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Short stories | POW | Available | 057599 |
In these sixteen tales, the author captures the joys and frailties of seemingly ordinary lives with extraordinary perception and wit. The stories take us from a Manhattan diner to a train station in Vietnam, from the Wild West to small town Australia, in a dazzling display of faith in language and in life. A man staying in New York pretends to be blind and inveigles his way through the defences of a lonely diner waitress; a child beggar in Vietnam makes his determined way through loss and into the world; a father falls prey to the temptations of the internet; a client discovers his psychiatrist's startling secret; and a wife sends a beautiful, but shocking, letter to her husband, the postman. Each delicious story transports the reader into another world and life with authorial grace and an assured lightness of touch.