In this sparkling, characteristically bold collection of stories written over some twenty years, Stephanie Johnson explores the various, frequently vexed preoccupations of our times – politics, religion, conservation and climate change, love, sex, aging, addiction, greed, travel – as well as the strange, even comical human impulses that drive individual, family and broader social behaviour.
Varied in tone and style, and ranging in scope from New Zealand to Australia and beyond, they showcase Johnson’s skills and typically subversive vision, challenging social norms and skewering pomposity and privilege wherever they may be found. These twenty-seven stories cement her reputation as a writer with a unique ability to blend humour and high seriousness, horror and hilarity, irony and compassion. All display her unerring talent for bravura storytelling.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Varied in tone and style, and ranging in scope from New Zealand to Australia and beyond, they showcase Johnson’s skills and typically subversive vision, challenging social norms and skewering pomposity and privilege wherever they may be found. These twenty-seven stories cement her reputation as a writer with a unique ability to blend humour and high seriousness, horror and hilarity, irony and compassion. All display her unerring talent for bravura storytelling.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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