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'Night Animals is about people on the edge, threatened by the collapse of their visions, with only the night as witness: the local butcher whose business booms mysteriously; the whites whose scheme involves spiked flour; a tart and a fool who meet in a pub and find solidarity; a man inspired by the brilliance of a tropical parrot. Whatever the setting, these stories ring with the clarity of the bush in the night, the haunting cry of the boo-book owl.' (Source: Back cover)
Notes
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Dedication: to the author's two children.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Ringwood,
Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area,
Melbourne - East,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Penguin
, 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Thylacine, single work short story (p. 1-8)
- Black Velvet Night, single work short story (p. 9-12)
- Flour for Your Grave, single work short story (p. 13-19)
- Cobber: Peach Face, single work short story (p. 20-27)
- Cobber: The Cat Men of Genoa, single work short story (p. 28-40)
- Harold's Trudy, single work short story (p. 41-48)
- Cicadas, single work short story (p. 49-54)
- Splitter, single work short story (p. 55-58)
- The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher, single work short story (p. 59-67)
- Work-Horses, single work short story (p. 68-73)
- The Carbide Lamp, single work short story (p. 74-76)
- Friday Night, single work short story (p. 77-83)
- Primary Colours, single work short story (p. 84-87)
- Funny Man, single work short story (p. 88-99)
- That's What Friends are For, single work short story (p. 100-107)
- Neither Did I, single work short story (p. 108-117)
- Nautilus, single work short story (p. 118-124)
- Soldier Goes to Ground, single work short story (p. 125-130)
- Sirens, single work short story (p. 131-137)
- Gravity and Levity, single work short story (p. 138-143)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Short Stories Plunge beneath Australian Stereotypes...
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 2 no. 1 1988; (p. 59)
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Los Angeles Times Book Review , 24 May 1987; (p. 10)
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story -
Mythopoesis and the Post-Modernist Crocodile ... and Other Critters of the Masculine Night
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 90 1987; (p. 12-14)
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story -
More Australian Short Story Gems
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 February 1987; (p. B2)
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story ; Australian Short Stories no. 16 1986 periodical issue -
Fiction Encounters of a Shorter Kind
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 4 April 1987;
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story
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Untitled
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , November vol. 1 no. 11 1986; (p. 14-15)
— Review of The Penguin Henry Lawson : Short Stories 1986 selected work short story ; Disquiet and Other Stories 1969 selected work short story ; Night Animals 1986 selected work short story -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Los Angeles Times Book Review , 24 May 1987; (p. 10)
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story -
Current Trends
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , March no. 106 1987; (p. 80-82)
— Review of Warm Bodies 1986 single work novel ; The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross 1986 single work novel ; Night Animals 1986 selected work short story ; A Horse of Air 1970 single work novel ; Love Child 1986 single work novel ; The Beast of Heaven 1984 single work novel -
Some Good Bits and Several Excellent Bits
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 October 1986; (p. 49)
— Review of The Diver's Reluctance to Ascend : Short Stories 1986 selected work short story ; Night Animals 1986 selected work short story -
Powerful, Macabre and Enigmatic
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 October 1986; (p. 15)
— Review of Night Animals 1986 selected work short story
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