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The Best Australian Stories 2012 edited by Sonya Hartnett

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February 2013, no. 348

The Best Australian Stories 2012 edited by Sonya Hartnett

Black Inc., $29.99 pb, 369 pp, 9781863955805

The Best Australian Stories 2012 edited by Sonya Hartnett

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February 2013, no. 348

Sonya Hartnett’s début as editor of The Best Australian Stories is marked by a series of fictions about dysfunctional families, eccentrics, and misfits. The homeless, lonely, disenfranchised, intellectually disabled, sick, afflicted, even the dead, are featured alongside the privileged, rich, and famous in a macabre mardi gras. Readers familiar with Hartnett’s writing will recognise many of her own carnivalesque qualities.

Cassandra Atherton reviews 'The Best Australian Stories 2012' edited by Sonya Hartnett

The Best Australian Stories 2012

edited by Sonya Hartnett

Black Inc., $29.99 pb, 369 pp, 9781863955805

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