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The Aquarium at Night single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2007-2008... 2007-2008 The Aquarium at Night
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin Eternal Summer vol. 66-67 no. 4-1 2007-2008 Z1487359 2007-2008 periodical issue 2007-2008 pg. 4-16
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Rip Robert Drewe , Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2008 Z1522488 2008 selected work short story

    'Set against the backdrop of the Australian coast, as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers.

    'You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam seeking his Eve; sharing the fears of a small boy in a coastal classroom as a tsunami approaches; in an English gaol cell with an Australian surfer on drug charges; and witnessing a middle-aged farmer contemplating murdering the hippie who stole his wife.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin ed.)

    Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2008
    pg. 85-113
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Stories 2008 Delia Falconer (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 Z1535129 2008 anthology short story (taught in 1 units) 'Australian short fiction is where the action is: outward-looking, exciting, filled with surprises and joyful life. Delia Falconer In The Best Australian Stories 2008, Delia Falconer brings together the year's most exciting short fiction. Featuring established masters as well as fresh new voices, this is a perfect book for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing. 'As a reader,' Delia Falconer writes, 'I crave what the short story is most suited to deliver: a glimpse into the unpredictability of life, a quick burst of tone and voice, a bittersweet balance of surprising layers.' By turns global and domestic, subversively funny and wrenchingly sad, this year's Best Australian Stories delivers this, and more.' (Publication summary) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 pg. 10-24
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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