Like a House on Fire
Scribe, $27.95 pb, 277 pp, 9781922070067
Fiction
Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
by Anthony Lynch •
Cate Kennedy’s fine second collection of short stories, Like a House on Fire, is of a determinedly realist bent. Metafictional play does not generally form part of Kennedy’s armoury, and the mostly low-rent settings and struggling characters reprise what in the 1980s and early 1990s was briefly known as dirty realism, though Kennedy’s prose is not as resolutely spare as that of some writers associated with that movement.
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