The Best Australian Stories 2008
In The Best Australian Stories 2008, Delia Falconer brings together the year's most exciting short fiction. Featuring established masters as well as fresh new voices, this is a perfect book for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing.
‘As a reader,' Delia Falconer writes, ‘I crave what the short story is most suited to deliver: a glimpse into the unpredictability of life, a quick burst of tone and voice, a bittersweet balance of surprising layers.' By turns global and domestic, subversively funny and wrenchingly sad, this year's Best Australian Stories delivers this, and more.
Contributors include Nam Le, Robert Drewe, Emily Ballou, Nicholas Shakespeare, Bernard Cohen, Deborah Robertson, Frank Moorhouse, Tony Birch, Marion Halligan, Will Elliott and more.
Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds, short-listed for major Australian awards including the Miles Franklin, and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She edited The Best Australian Stories 2008 and The Penguin Book of the Road. An acclaimed essayist, short-story writer and critic, she holds a PhD in English literature and cultural studies from the University of Melbourne.
