A Change For The Better: Short Stories (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: No. 37 of 50 Limited Numbered and Signed copies.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
From one of Australia's most idiosyncratic and underappreciated literary voices comes A Change for the Better, a collection of short stories that captures the absurdity, alienation, and dark comedy embedded in everyday Australian life. Peter Mathers — best known for his experimental novels Trap and The Wort Papers — turns his unsettling gaze to the short form, presenting characters navigating a world that is simultaneously mundane and profoundly strange, where the promise of change is always just out of reach. Mathers writes with a sardonic wit and a sharp ear for the rhythms of working-class speech, crafting narratives that resist easy resolution and comfortable sentiment. His prose is restless and inventive, underpinned by a social conscience that dissects class, identity, and the peculiar textures of post-war Australian society. Published with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council, this collection stands as a testament to Mathers' singular vision — and leaves the reader wondering whether any change, for better or worse, is truly possible at all.
Author: Peter Mathers
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Words and Visions Publications, Adelaide
Genre: Anthology
Edition: No. 37 of 50 Limited Numbered and Signed copies.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
From one of Australia's most idiosyncratic and underappreciated literary voices comes A Change for the Better, a collection of short stories that captures the absurdity, alienation, and dark comedy embedded in everyday Australian life. Peter Mathers — best known for his experimental novels Trap and The Wort Papers — turns his unsettling gaze to the short form, presenting characters navigating a world that is simultaneously mundane and profoundly strange, where the promise of change is always just out of reach. Mathers writes with a sardonic wit and a sharp ear for the rhythms of working-class speech, crafting narratives that resist easy resolution and comfortable sentiment. His prose is restless and inventive, underpinned by a social conscience that dissects class, identity, and the peculiar textures of post-war Australian society. Published with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council, this collection stands as a testament to Mathers' singular vision — and leaves the reader wondering whether any change, for better or worse, is truly possible at all.