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Dark Roots

Dark Roots

by Cate Kennedy
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/09/2012

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In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives - moments that find them poised between a familiar past and an unfamiliar future. In 'The Testosterone Club', a neglected wife plans an unsavoury revenge on her boorish husband. In 'Resize', a married couple realise their too-tight wedding rings may symbolise wider aspects of their relationship. And in 'Cold Snap', a young boy senses that the newly arrived tree changer may have some sinister intents. Heartbreaking, evocative and richly comic, Dark Roots unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures, and the coincidences that drive our lives.
'Cate Kennedy writes with the warm understanding and cold precision of a master. A dazzling collection.' David Malouf

'One of the world's finest short-story writers.' Robert Drewe

Shortlisted for 2007 Premier's Queensland Literary Awards- Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
ISBN:
9781922070197
9781922070197
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-09-2012
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
3rd Edition
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
196x130x18mm
Weight:
0.17kg
Cate Kennedy

Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely.

Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011. She lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north-east Victoria.

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