The weight of a human heart : stories

O'Neill, Ryan 1975- (Author).

Summary: 'The Weight of a Human Heart' turns the rules of storytelling on their head. A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary feud, and an affair, play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother's disturbing secrets.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250024992 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1250024994 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
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.