Whether in portraiture or in caricature, the world of the great Australian poet and short story writer, Henry Lawson, is filled with people to make you laugh and cry and experience every other emotion in between, and no more so than in this definitive collection of the Australian bard’s most enduring short stories. From The Bush Undertaker to The Driver’s Wife, the reader will live the adventure of late nineteenth century Australia and, at the same time, come to understand the ways of modern Australia. The humor and the pathos are both universal and timeless. The greatest hero and villain of these collected short stories remain and always will remain Henry Lawson’s Australia, a place of squatters, speilers, stragglers, swaggies, selectors, and a land of plenty of fortune and misfortune to go around.
Henry Lawson (1867 –1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's 'greatest short story writer.'
Human Gods, Dark Matter, Galactic Love. More than fiction. Everything is possible...when man is God.
Chris Mathews puts his life on hold in the eighth millennium and leaves behind his beloved wife Leanne to join Professor Andrew Reichstein and Hailey Missentra on a ride to a slipstream at the edge of a black hole. They plan exiting the stream a few seconds into the future to prove that time 'emergence' is possible. However, they emerge into a time beyond their reckoning and find their worlds changed forever. Chris, in particular, must decide whether to travel even farther into the future, into an infinite future, when man becomes God, and seek the missing information that will bring his wife Leanne back to him. But not all is as it seems and he starts questioning if the futuristic world's enigmatic Priest stands to benefit more than he will from his efforts. And what will this mean to his friends and their survival?
Who can you trust in the future when the past is all you have?
Going back where you came from is harder if it's where you already are...
Migrants arrive in the Lucky Country from lands their forebears knew for a thousand years. They know where they are and why they’re here and what they face.
Then there are their children…born in a country that can't spell their names, and of a heritage that doesn't know they were born.
Reminded every day that he doesn't quite belong, and reminding himself where others forget or couldn't care less, second generation Ed Kaspar sets out on a journey to not only be an Australian but to be his country, to “be Australia,” with nineteenth century bush-balladist Henry Lawson as his guide.
Determined to “romance the swag,” Ed abandons his career for outback sheep stations. He works his way to an iconic identity while at a crossroads in his life, while his nation is at a crossroads of its own.
The chronicle explores the changing face of Australia, and a name among many that it went by, Ed Kaspar.
With its small town focus, A Country Of Our Clay nonetheless brings a universality to a narrative with the power to awaken and share wherever anyone needs a place to call home.
Published by Light River Books
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