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Shirl
Author: Wayne Marshall
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Retail Price: | $26.99 |
Betabooks Price | $21.59 |
ISBN: 9781925972276
Format: Paperback
Published: January 2020
Published By: Affirm Press
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Published: January 2020
Published By: Affirm Press
Stock Availability
Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
Product Description
Fourteen superbly inventive and powerful stories that skewer contemporary Australian society in insightful and hilarious ways.Fourteen superbly inventive and powerful stories that skewer contemporary Australian society in insightful and hilarious ways.A lonely yowie emerges from the bush to attend the Desperate and Dateless Ball. Mysterious creatures descend from the sky to place a ban on footy. A shark named Bruce turns up in the local swimming pool. A fisherman enjoying a boys' weekend on the Murray River finds perspective where he least expects it.In SHIRL, Wayne Marshall takes a range of what-if scenarios to their fabulist and comedic extremes. Superbly inventive and powerful, these fourteen stories skewer contemporary Australian society - particularly the crisis of masculinity and national identity - in insightful and yet hilarious ways, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Slightly warped and darkly comic, this astounding collection will make you rethink what it means to be Australian.