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Stewart Edwards

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

August 1981, no. 33 01 August 1981
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. ... (read more)