Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley

by
August 1981, no. 33

Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley

Penguin, $3.95 pb, 173 pp

Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley

by
August 1981, no. 33

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.

Stewart Edwards reviews 'Hunting the Wild Pineapple' by Thea Astley

Hunting the Wild Pineapple

by Thea Astley

Penguin, $3.95 pb, 173 pp

You May Also Like

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.