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'She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the skin. She is the near miss. She is the woman you once were, the woman you could be, the woman you are. She is a triumph of our shared history, is every one of you, is your wild and screaming voice on street corners, is the madwoman you fear you may become. She loves you.
'As women's voices begin to rise together, Mandy Beaumont's brutal and uncompromising stories are a compelling reminder of the ways in which women have fallen, been dismissed, hurt, hated and loved from afar.
'These are the stories we have always known, have always heard about and are perhaps just short moments away from. They are yours, ours, mine. They are booming anger. They are wild love. They are the distorted and the decided, the imagined and the wanted. They are the shaking ground beneath our feet. A powerful call to arms. They compel us to stand tall. To break free. To defy the gaze. To claim our space.
'Wild, Fearless Chests is the sound of a certain revolution.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication: For Marg, for all the women misplaced.
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Epigraph: What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them? -Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Short but Far from Sweet
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 June 2020; (p. 19)
— Review of Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story -
March in Fiction
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of Damascus 2019 single work novel ; The Breeding Season 2019 single work novel ; The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; Cherry Beach 2020 single work novel -
Four Auspicious Début Collections by Mandy Beaumont, Dominic Carew, Wayne Marshall, and Sean O'Beirne
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story ; Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; A Couple of Things Before the End : Stories 2020 selected work short story'The American writer Jack Matthews had no time for what he called ‘a discontent’ with the brevity of the short story. ‘Ask a coral snake,’ he declared, ‘which is as deadly as it is small.’ The claim for ‘deadliness’ certainly applies to four recent début collections; in the tight spaces of the short story, each one presents confronting ideas about contemporary Australia.' (Introduction)
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Four Auspicious Début Collections by Mandy Beaumont, Dominic Carew, Wayne Marshall, and Sean O'Beirne
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story ; Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; A Couple of Things Before the End : Stories 2020 selected work short story'The American writer Jack Matthews had no time for what he called ‘a discontent’ with the brevity of the short story. ‘Ask a coral snake,’ he declared, ‘which is as deadly as it is small.’ The claim for ‘deadliness’ certainly applies to four recent début collections; in the tight spaces of the short story, each one presents confronting ideas about contemporary Australia.' (Introduction)
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March in Fiction
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of Damascus 2019 single work novel ; The Breeding Season 2019 single work novel ; The Coconut Children 2020 extract novel ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; Cherry Beach 2020 single work novel -
Short but Far from Sweet
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 June 2020; (p. 19)
— Review of Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript as 'She Is Bright Light And All Brilliance'
- 2018 shortlisted The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers as 'She Is Bright Light And All Brilliance'