Hunting the Wild Pineapple
Penguin, $3.95 pb, 173 pp
Fiction
Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley
by Stewart Edwards •
There nine stories in this volume are rich in people, satire, compassion, and humour. And set like ambushes, unexpected and surprising, are several cameos.
It is a captivating, ensnaring book, but to call it a book of short stories would be so inadequate as to be misleading. There is an uncommon coherence, slender but powerful enough to raise it above that easy classification.
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