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A lovely and terrible thing, Chris Womersley

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Around you the world is swirling. You pass through a submerged town, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water... In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank. Oil slicks the canals of the capital and even now the old men still tell tales of mermen in the shallows... A pool empty of water save for a brackish puddle and bones and hanks of fur on the floor, the remains of mice or possums that have tumbled in, lured perhaps by the moisture. Or perhaps by something else..
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
270 pages
Contents
  • Headful of bees
  • The house of special purpose
  • The possibility of water
  • The very edge of things
  • Growing plain
  • Petrichor
  • The middle of nowhere
  • The other side of silence
  • The mare's nest
  • The age of terror
  • Dark the water, so deep the night
  • Where there's smoke
  • Season of hope
  • A lovely and terrible thing
  • Blood brother
  • Crying wolf
  • The deep end
  • The shed
  • Theories of relativity
  • What the darkness said
  • Acknowledgements
  • Details of previous publication
Isbn
9781760554811
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Label
A lovely and terrible thing
Title
A lovely and terrible thing
Statement of responsibility
Chris Womersley
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
Around you the world is swirling. You pass through a submerged town, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water... In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank. Oil slicks the canals of the capital and even now the old men still tell tales of mermen in the shallows... A pool empty of water save for a brackish puddle and bones and hanks of fur on the floor, the remains of mice or possums that have tumbled in, lured perhaps by the moisture. Or perhaps by something else..
Summary
In bestselling author Chris Womersleys first short fiction collection, twenty macabre and deliciously enjoyable tales linked by the trickle of water that runs through them all will keep readers spellbound until their final, unexpected and unsettling twist.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10775348
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Womersley, Chris
Dewey number
A823.4
Index
no index present
Literary form
short stories
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True
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  • Water
  • Disasters
  • Short stories, Australian
  • Australia
Target audience
general
Label
A lovely and terrible thing, Chris Womersley
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Publication
Copyright
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Headful of bees -- The house of special purpose -- The possibility of water -- The very edge of things -- Growing plain -- Petrichor -- The middle of nowhere -- The other side of silence -- The mare's nest -- The age of terror -- Dark the water, so deep the night -- Where there's smoke -- Season of hope -- A lovely and terrible thing -- Blood brother -- Crying wolf -- The deep end -- The shed -- Theories of relativity -- What the darkness said -- Acknowledgements -- Details of previous publication
Control code
000065205786
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
270 pages
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9781760554811
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)1085540519
Label
A lovely and terrible thing, Chris Womersley
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Headful of bees -- The house of special purpose -- The possibility of water -- The very edge of things -- Growing plain -- Petrichor -- The middle of nowhere -- The other side of silence -- The mare's nest -- The age of terror -- Dark the water, so deep the night -- Where there's smoke -- Season of hope -- A lovely and terrible thing -- Blood brother -- Crying wolf -- The deep end -- The shed -- Theories of relativity -- What the darkness said -- Acknowledgements -- Details of previous publication
Control code
000065205786
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
270 pages
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9781760554811
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)1085540519

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