Datsunland

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
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Author: Stephen Orr ISBN: 9781743054901
Publisher: Wakefield Press Publication: March 30, 2017
Imprint: Wakefield Press Language: English
Author: Stephen Orr
ISBN: 9781743054901
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Publication: March 30, 2017
Imprint: Wakefield Press
Language: English

A long-deserted drive-in, waiting for a rerun of the one story that might give it life; a child who discovers his identity in a photograph hidden in his parents' room ... Stephen Orr's stories are happy to let you in, but not out. In "Datsunland", his characters are outsiders peering into worlds they don't recognise, or understand: an Indian doctor arriving in the outback, discovering an uncomfortable truth about the Australian dream; a family trying to have their son's name removed from a Great War cowards' list; a confused teenager with a gun making an ad for an evangelical ministry. Each story is set in a place where, as Borges described, "heaven and hell seem out of proportion". There is no easy escape from the world's most desperate car yard, or the school with a secret that permeates all but one of the fourteen stories in "Datsunland". Here is a glimpse of inner lives, love, the astonishment of being ourselves.

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A long-deserted drive-in, waiting for a rerun of the one story that might give it life; a child who discovers his identity in a photograph hidden in his parents' room ... Stephen Orr's stories are happy to let you in, but not out. In "Datsunland", his characters are outsiders peering into worlds they don't recognise, or understand: an Indian doctor arriving in the outback, discovering an uncomfortable truth about the Australian dream; a family trying to have their son's name removed from a Great War cowards' list; a confused teenager with a gun making an ad for an evangelical ministry. Each story is set in a place where, as Borges described, "heaven and hell seem out of proportion". There is no easy escape from the world's most desperate car yard, or the school with a secret that permeates all but one of the fourteen stories in "Datsunland". Here is a glimpse of inner lives, love, the astonishment of being ourselves.

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