Voices
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A collection of short fiction from one of Australia's most quietly powerful literary voices, Voices presents a series of spare, contemplative stories set against the vast and often unforgiving Australian landscape. Peter Cowan's prose is precise and restrained, drawing meaning from silence and understatement as much as from action or dialogue. Each story illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people — farmers, families, and solitary figures — caught in moments of tension, loss, or quiet revelation. Cowan's mastery of the short story form is on full display here, as he strips narrative down to its essential truths with a cool, unsentimental clarity that rewards patient and attentive readers.
Author: Peter Cowan
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A collection of short fiction from one of Australia's most quietly powerful literary voices, Voices presents a series of spare, contemplative stories set against the vast and often unforgiving Australian landscape. Peter Cowan's prose is precise and restrained, drawing meaning from silence and understatement as much as from action or dialogue. Each story illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people — farmers, families, and solitary figures — caught in moments of tension, loss, or quiet revelation. Cowan's mastery of the short story form is on full display here, as he strips narrative down to its essential truths with a cool, unsentimental clarity that rewards patient and attentive readers.