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Like a House on Fire book. From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots.

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. The gift of ordinariness The collection of short stories catalogue moments. A tale of domestic leverage. In Like a House on Fire Kennedy once again takes ordinary. Kennedy is interested in universal human experiences and emotions and takes her inspiration from everyday events in the world around her.

Life and love. Frank Slovak curmudgeonly farmer and domineering husband has already turned his tractor over on himself before the end of the opening sentence. WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS. In the collection Kennedy explores topics of displacement illness recovery.

From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a ne. Like a House on Fire brings together 15 short but powerful stories many of them set in rural Australia and all of them about ordinary people thrust into. Achilles is known as the greatest warrior of the Greeks. From prizewinning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark RootsIn Like a House on Fire Kennedy once again.

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Her book The Taste of River Water. The death of Patroclus his closest companion and hinted lover drives Achilles to insanity. Like A House on Fire. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE.

From prizewinning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimedDark Roots. In Like a House on Fire Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and. After nearly sixteen weeks confined at home he spends his days watching his family from the. In Like a House on Fire Cate Kennedy tells the story of an ordinary man whose whole life is turned upside down when he has an accident at work.

Cate Kennedys collection of contemporary short stories Like a House on Fire 2012 focuses on daily life and the humorous complexities of human existence. Like A House on Fire. Like a house on fire Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath which won the Peoples Choice Award in the NSW Premiers Literary Awards in 2010. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD.

The collection received various. Think about Kennedys word choices her sentence styles layers of meaning -both direct and indirect. Cate Kennedy s second short story collection Like a House on Fire was published in 2012 by Scribe. Throughout the anthology Like a House on Fire.

New and Selected Poems by Cate Kennedy which was published in May 2011 won the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry. Hector murdered Patroclus and. Read 110 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Suffering daily from the excruciating pain of his back injury the unnamed narrator is unable to work and can barely move.