Bearded Ladies: Stories

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University of Queensland Press, 1984 - Fiction - 168 pages
Reprint of a collection of short stories first published in 1984, which are black comedies dealing with human relationships. By the author of 'Dreamhouse', 'Joan Makes History' and 'Lilian's Story', which won the 1984 Australian/Vogel Award and the 1986 Talking Book of the Year Award.

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Contents

The Test Is If They Drown
24
Blast Off
37
A Summer Aunt
54
Copyright

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About the author (1984)

Kate Grenville was born in Sydney on October 14, 1950. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a BA (Honours), the University of Colorado with a MA and a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. She is one of Australia's best-known authors. She is the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in London in 2015. She also made the Indie Awards 2016 shortlists in the Nonfiction category with her title One Life.

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