Datsunland

Datsunland

by Stephen Orr
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/04/2017

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A long-deserted drive-in, waiting for a rerun of the one story that might give it life; a child who discovers his identity in a photograph hidden in his parents' room ... Stephen Orr's stories are happy to let you in, but not out. In "Datsunland", his characters are outsiders peering into worlds they don't recognise, or understand: an Indian doctor arriving in the outback, discovering an uncomfortable truth about the Australian dream; a family trying to have their son's name removed from a Great War cowards' list; a confused teenager with a gun making an ad for an evangelical ministry. Each story is set in a place where, as Borges described, "heaven and hell seem out of proportion". There is no easy escape from the world's most desperate car yard, or the school with a secret that permeates all but one of the fourteen stories in "Datsunland". Here is a glimpse of inner lives, love, the astonishment of being ourselves.

ISBN:
9781743054901
9781743054901
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-04-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wakefield Press
Stephen Orr

Stephen Orr is an author whose career began as a runner-up in the 2002 Vogel/Australian award. Attempts to Draw Jesus was published by Allen and Unwin in 2002.

Since then he has written several other novels, been long- and shortlisted for awards such as the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin, and worked as a journalist and teacher.

His latest novel, One Boy Missing, was his first venture into literary crime writing.

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