Independent Publishers Group Logo

Sign up today...
for featured titles, special offers, bestsellers, and more, in your inbox!

Subscribe to receive special offers, monthly books suggestions, seasonal selections, and more!

Close
Tarcutta Wake
Tarcutta Wake

Tarcutta Wake

Stories

FICTION

120 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket, EPUB, PDF

Trade Paper, $16.95 (US $16.95) (CA $18.95)

Publication Date: October 2012

ISBN 9780702249303

Rights: US & CA

University Of Queensland Press (Oct 2012)
University of Queensland Press

eBook

eBook Editions Available

Will it work on my eReader?
Price: $16.95
 
 

Overview

In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of collective memory and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited beliefs. A mother moves north with her young children who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation’s guilt in pictures of its people’s hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America’s Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has left behind.

Reviews

“Josephine Rowe . . . writes clear, polished prose. Her tales are all succinct . . . we get glimpses, the corners of other people’s lives.”  —Sunday Age

Author Biography

Josephine Rowe is the author of the short story collection How a Moth Becomes a Boat, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, the Iowa Review, Meanjin, and Overland. She was a participant of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.