Unsettled Areas: Recent South Australian short fiction
Wakefield Press, $9.95, 165 pp
Unsettled Areas: Recent South Australian short fiction edited by Andrew Taylor
A reviewer is bound to behave as a different kind of reader from others, especially when dealing with a mixed collection like Unsettled Areas. Other readers can pick and choose, skip the duller bits, and take as long as they like, whereas I’ve read closely every story, at least twice, in the space of two days. Then I’ve let them settle into my imagination for another day or so to see what impressions have lasted, before taking another look. I looked especially hard at the ones I found unsatisfactory, in case my mind had changed. I’ll leave these until later.
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