Book
The weight of a human heart : stories
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250024992 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1250024994 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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229 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Australia, Black Inc., 2012. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Collected stories -- The cockroach -- English as a foreign language -- Africa was children crying -- Four letter words -- Seventeen rules for writing a short story -- A speeding bullet -- The Chinese lesson -- A story in writing -- The genocide -- A short story -- A room without books -- Figures in a marriage -- Last words -- The footnote -- The examination -- Understand, understood, understood -- July the firsts -- The saved -- Typography -- The eunuch in the harem. |
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| Genre: | Short stories. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Rossland Public Library | FIC ONE (Text) | 35162000068343 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
RYAN O'NEILL was born in Glasgow in 1975. He lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. His fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly. His work has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards. The Weight of a Human Heart has been shortlisted for the 2012 Queensland Literary Prize - Steele Rudd Award. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.
