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'Since publishing his first collection of short stories, The Rattler, in 2011, Melbourne write A.S. Patric has been building a reputation for writing that puts a very high level of craft at the service of a distinctive sensibility and a sometimes unsettling and bizarre vision: he is a writer who, deliberately or not, continues Patrick White's mission to bring European modernism to the Australian suburbs....'