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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 This Taste for Silence : Stories
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'The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.

'Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O’Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Ade and Louis

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Works about this Work

Nomads and Timid Souls : Two New Short-story Collections Bronwyn Lea , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 414 2019; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Here Until August : Stories Josephine Rowe , 2019 selected work short story ; This Taste for Silence : Stories Amanda O'Callaghan , 2019 selected work short story

'The inciting incident in Josephine Rowe’s short story ‘Glisk’ (winner of the 2016 Jolley Prize) unpacks in an instant. A dog emerges from the scrub and a ute veers into oncoming traffic. A sedan carrying a mother and two kids swerves into the safety barrier, corroded by the salt air, and disappears over a sandstone bluff. Three-quarters of a family are erased. And it all happens ‘in a glisk’, Fynn, the driver of the ute, will say years later.' (Introduction)

Nomads and Timid Souls : Two New Short-story Collections Bronwyn Lea , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 414 2019; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Here Until August : Stories Josephine Rowe , 2019 selected work short story ; This Taste for Silence : Stories Amanda O'Callaghan , 2019 selected work short story

'The inciting incident in Josephine Rowe’s short story ‘Glisk’ (winner of the 2016 Jolley Prize) unpacks in an instant. A dog emerges from the scrub and a ute veers into oncoming traffic. A sedan carrying a mother and two kids swerves into the safety barrier, corroded by the salt air, and disappears over a sandstone bluff. Three-quarters of a family are erased. And it all happens ‘in a glisk’, Fynn, the driver of the ute, will say years later.' (Introduction)

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