The Simplest Words
A Storyteller's Journey
Published on 21. October 2015
304 pages
978-1-925268-54-6 (ISBN)
Description
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate as many of these pieces are, this collection forms a kind of assured autobiography, of the sort that only Alex Miller could write.Alex Miller's stories are told with a rare level of wisdom and profundity, engaging the intellect and the emotions simultaneously. Stories are, after all, in his blood.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
File size
3,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-925268-54-6 (9781925268546)
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Allen & Unwin
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Content
- Cover
- Also by the author
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- In the Blood
- Ross and the Green Elfin
- In My Mother's Kitchen
- Learning to Fly
- Boys Wanted for Farms
- My First Love
- Excerpt from The Tivington Nott
- Travels with My Green Man
- Once Upon a Life
- Excerpt from Watching the Climbers on the Mountain
- How to Kill Wild Horses
- Destiny's Child
- Living at Araluen
- Excerpt from The Sitters
- In the End it was Teaching Writing
- The Last Sister of Charity
- The Rule of the First Prelude
- On Writing Landscape of Farewell
- Excerpt from Landscape of Farewell
- Australia Today
- The Writer's Secret
- Speaking Terms
- Impressions of China
- Excerpt from The Ancestor Game
- Chasing My Tale
- The Wine Merchant of Aarhus
- The Mask of Fiction
- Excerpt from Conditions of Faith
- The Inspiration Behind Lovesong
- Excerpt from Lovesong
- How I Came to Write Autumn Laing
- Excerpt from Autumn Laing
- Meanjin
- Comrade Pawel
- The Story's Not Over Yet
- Prophets of the Imagination
- Excerpt from Journey to the Stone Country
- Sweet Water
- The Black Mirror
- Excerpt from Prochownik's Dream
- A Circle of Kindred Spirits
- Sophie's Choice
- The Mother of Coal Creek
- Excerpt from Coal Creek
- Teetering
- Song of the Good Visa
- Publication Details
- Acknowledgements
