Ocean Of Story: The Uncollected Stories Of Christina Stead Edited With An Afterword By R. G. Geering
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Few writers of the twentieth century possessed Christina Stead's fearless capacity to render the full, turbulent sweep of human experience — and Ocean of Story brings together the uncollected short fiction of this towering Australian literary voice, carefully edited and presented with an illuminating afterword by R. G. Geering. The collection gathers stories spanning Stead's remarkable career, chronicling a vivid cast of characters navigating love, power, displacement, and the quiet brutalities of domestic life, all rendered in her characteristically dense and electric prose. From sharp social satire to deeply intimate psychological portraits, each story is a world unto itself, confirming Stead's reputation as a writer of restless intelligence and extraordinary range. Geering's editorial hand brings scholarly rigour to this posthumous volume, contextualising these previously scattered works within Stead's broader literary legacy and offering essential insight into her creative evolution. Known for her landmark novel The Man Who Loved Children, Stead wrote with an uncompromising moral vision and a style that defied easy categorisation — at once realist and baroque, intimate and panoramic. Ocean of Story is an indispensable companion to her major works, and for those encountering her fiction for the first time, it is a revelation that raises an urgent question: how did one of the twentieth century's most daring storytellers remain so criminally overlooked for so long?
Author: Christina Stead
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Viking
Genre: Anthology
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Few writers of the twentieth century possessed Christina Stead's fearless capacity to render the full, turbulent sweep of human experience — and Ocean of Story brings together the uncollected short fiction of this towering Australian literary voice, carefully edited and presented with an illuminating afterword by R. G. Geering. The collection gathers stories spanning Stead's remarkable career, chronicling a vivid cast of characters navigating love, power, displacement, and the quiet brutalities of domestic life, all rendered in her characteristically dense and electric prose. From sharp social satire to deeply intimate psychological portraits, each story is a world unto itself, confirming Stead's reputation as a writer of restless intelligence and extraordinary range. Geering's editorial hand brings scholarly rigour to this posthumous volume, contextualising these previously scattered works within Stead's broader literary legacy and offering essential insight into her creative evolution. Known for her landmark novel The Man Who Loved Children, Stead wrote with an uncompromising moral vision and a style that defied easy categorisation — at once realist and baroque, intimate and panoramic. Ocean of Story is an indispensable companion to her major works, and for those encountering her fiction for the first time, it is a revelation that raises an urgent question: how did one of the twentieth century's most daring storytellers remain so criminally overlooked for so long?