{"product_id":"2026100009241-secondhand-a-change-for-the-better-short-stories-signed","title":"A Change For The Better: Short Stories (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: No. 37 of 50 Limited Numbered and Signed copies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nMathers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219869769947,"sku":"2026100009241-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/16c51a4c-8132-4f63-9752-5bf214782620.png?v=1788482984","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009241-secondhand-a-change-for-the-better-short-stories-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}