Archipelagoes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Australia's most versatile and celebrated literary voices comes Archipelagoes, a collection of short stories that is simultaneously zany, bizarre, and deeply poignant — a triptych of tones that Peter Goldsworthy wields with disarming precision. Each story stands as its own island of imagination, yet together they form a rich and varied landscape of human experience, charting the comic absurdities, quiet tragedies, and surprising tenderness that define everyday life in ways both recognisable and unsettling. Goldsworthy, best known for his novel Maestro, brings to this collection the same sharp wit and lyrical economy that have made him a cornerstone of contemporary Australian literature. His prose is deceptively simple — spare and clean on the surface, yet charged beneath with emotional depth and philosophical inquiry. Archipelagoes is a testament to the short story form at its most electric, leaving the reader to wonder which island Goldsworthy will conjure next, and what unexpected truth might be waiting on its shores.
Author: Peter Goldsworthy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Australia's most versatile and celebrated literary voices comes Archipelagoes, a collection of short stories that is simultaneously zany, bizarre, and deeply poignant — a triptych of tones that Peter Goldsworthy wields with disarming precision. Each story stands as its own island of imagination, yet together they form a rich and varied landscape of human experience, charting the comic absurdities, quiet tragedies, and surprising tenderness that define everyday life in ways both recognisable and unsettling. Goldsworthy, best known for his novel Maestro, brings to this collection the same sharp wit and lyrical economy that have made him a cornerstone of contemporary Australian literature. His prose is deceptively simple — spare and clean on the surface, yet charged beneath with emotional depth and philosophical inquiry. Archipelagoes is a testament to the short story form at its most electric, leaving the reader to wonder which island Goldsworthy will conjure next, and what unexpected truth might be waiting on its shores.