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y separately published work icon The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection anthology   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Camouflage, Murray Bail , single work short story (p. 1-13)
Two Wrecks, Dorothy Johnston , single work short story (p. 14-22)
The White Hole of Bombay, Nicholas Shakespeare , single work short story (p. 23-34)
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice, Nam Le , single work short story

'A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed.

'Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le's multi-award-winning collection The Boat.' (From the publisher's website, 2012 Penguin publication.)

 (p. 35-54)
The Lap Pool, Robert Drewe , single work short story (p. 55-71)
Still Here, Anna Krien , single work short story (p. 72-80)
Dust, Patrick Cullen , single work short story (p. 81-91)
The Meaning of Life, Mandy Sayer , single work short story (p. 92-104)
Speak to Me The Comfort of Strangeness, Paddy O'Reilly , single work short story (p. 105-112)
Note: With title: Speak to Me
Hurricane Season, Janette Turner Hospital , single work short story (p. 113-126)
The Intimacy of the Table Kenneth Slessor : The Intimacy of the Table, Delia Falconer , single work short story (p. 127-136)
Note: With title: The Intimacy of the Table
Mate, Kate Grenville , single work short story humour (p. 137-145)
Shooting the Dog, Peter Goldsworthy , single work short story (p. 146-161)
Black Ice Cold Snap, Cate Kennedy , single work short story (p. 162-169)
Fox Unpopuli, Eva Sallis , single work short story satire (p. 170-176)
La Moustiquaire, Gillian Mears , single work short story (p. 177-183)
Dry Land, Steven Amsterdam , extract novel
The rain won’t stop falling. Suburbs are being flooded and washed away. A government representative travels to sinking areas to encourage people to leave before it’s too late.
 (p. 184-198)
Today on Dr Phil, Tom Cho , single work short story (p. 199-202)
Act Fifteen, Jessica Anderson , single work short story (p. 203-210)
Onionskinny, Campbell Mattinson , single work short story (p. 211-217)
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