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Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy

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November 2012, no. 346

Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy

Scribe, $27.95 pb, 277 pp, 9781922070067

Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy

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November 2012, no. 346

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.

Anthony Lynch reviews 'Like a House on Fire' by Cate Kennedy

Like a House on Fire

by Cate Kennedy

Scribe, $27.95 pb, 277 pp, 9781922070067

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