The Best Australian Stories 2012
Black Inc., $29.99 pb, 369 pp, 9781863955805
Anthology
The Best Australian Stories 2012 edited by Sonya Hartnett
by Cassandra Atherton •
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.
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