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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Failure to Thrive
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'First Day

I knew if I reached the seat first, presented my argument as to why I should be president of the missions committee, they'd just let me have it. I angled my knees toward the far corner of the auditorium.' (57)

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    y separately published work icon After the Carnage Tara June Winch , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2016 9383449 2016 selected work short story

    'Ten years after the much-acclaimed Swallow the Air, Tara June Winch returns with an extraordinary new collection of stories'

    'A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a better future. A recently divorced man starts a running group with members of an online forum for recovering addicts. '

    'Ranging from New York to Istanbul, from Pakistan to Australia, these unforgettable stories chart the distances in their characters’ lives – whether they have grown apart from the ones they love, been displaced from their homeland, or are struggling to reconcile their dreams with reality. A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the impressive evolution of one of our finest young writers.' (Source: Publisher's website)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2016     pg. 57-72
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