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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Salt : Selected Essays and Stories
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'A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.

'Bruce Pascoe has been described as a ‘living national treasure’ and his work as ‘revelatory’. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, ranges across his long career, and explores his enduring fascination with Australia’s landscape, culture, land management and history.

'Featuring new and previously unpublished fiction alongside his most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction – including extracts from his modern classic Dark Emu – this collection is perfect for Pascoe fans and new readers alike. It’s time all Australians saw the range and depth of this most marvellous of local writers.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2019 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
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      • Published 6 August 2019.

      ISBN: 9781760641580, 9781743821053

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Works about this Work

Beyond a Yarn into Artistry Melissa Lucashenko , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 January 2020; (p. 17)

— Review of Salt : Selected Essays and Stories Bruce Pascoe , 2019 selected work essay short story

'If you know Bruce Pascoe’s name it’s probably because of Dark Emu, his bestseller that exploded the myth that Australian civilisation began with the British. But Uncle Bruce was writing and publishing for decades before he turned our idea of Australian agriculture sideways. His new book, Salt, brings together the finest of his lifetime’s work. It contains 10 new short stories along with some previously published gems, and some of the best essays on Australia I ever hope to read.'  (Introduction)

Reading Bruce Pascoe Tom Griffiths , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2019;

'The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered'

This Salted Earth : An Eclectic and Engaging Collection of Writings Stephen Kinnane , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 29-30)

— Review of Salt : Selected Essays and Stories Bruce Pascoe , 2019 selected work essay short story

'Bruce Pascoe’s Salt is a wonderfully eclectic collection of new works and earlier short fiction, literary non-fiction, and essays written over twenty years. Structured thematically across six themes – Country, Lament, Seawolves, Embrasure, Tracks, and Culture Lines – Salt moves between the past and the present with Pascoe’s distinctively poetic voice. Readers of Dark Emu (2014) and Convincing Ground (2007) will be familiar with the style and subject matter but will discover newly released or reworked gems.' (Introduction)

This Salted Earth : An Eclectic and Engaging Collection of Writings Stephen Kinnane , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 416 2019; (p. 29-30)

— Review of Salt : Selected Essays and Stories Bruce Pascoe , 2019 selected work essay short story

'Bruce Pascoe’s Salt is a wonderfully eclectic collection of new works and earlier short fiction, literary non-fiction, and essays written over twenty years. Structured thematically across six themes – Country, Lament, Seawolves, Embrasure, Tracks, and Culture Lines – Salt moves between the past and the present with Pascoe’s distinctively poetic voice. Readers of Dark Emu (2014) and Convincing Ground (2007) will be familiar with the style and subject matter but will discover newly released or reworked gems.' (Introduction)

Beyond a Yarn into Artistry Melissa Lucashenko , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 January 2020; (p. 17)

— Review of Salt : Selected Essays and Stories Bruce Pascoe , 2019 selected work essay short story

'If you know Bruce Pascoe’s name it’s probably because of Dark Emu, his bestseller that exploded the myth that Australian civilisation began with the British. But Uncle Bruce was writing and publishing for decades before he turned our idea of Australian agriculture sideways. His new book, Salt, brings together the finest of his lifetime’s work. It contains 10 new short stories along with some previously published gems, and some of the best essays on Australia I ever hope to read.'  (Introduction)

Reading Bruce Pascoe Tom Griffiths , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2019;

'The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered'

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