| Author: | Jane Skelton | ISBN: | 1230000244300 |
| Publisher: | Spineless Wonders | Publication: | June 3, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jane Skelton |
| ISBN: | 1230000244300 |
| Publisher: | Spineless Wonders |
| Publication: | June 3, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The Lives of the Dead short story collection begins and ends with a road trip. The outsider characters defy
authority. They seek or are captured by memories of the past, tied up inextricably in landscape. These travellers of highways and trainlines are preoccupied with the lives of the dead, lost children or parents. They carry fragments of memory which they seek to unite, restoring continuity in divided lives, and in this quest each must run up against a barrier, the fence, the boundary between the self and others.
'Sex, death, violence, sexual molestation, eccentricity, strangeness, all handled with clarity and compassion ... the language and description have the precision of poetry.’
—BARBARA BROOKS, writer & academic
Jane Skelton has published short fiction in literary journals and anthologies over the past 20 years and her novel earth eaters was a winner of the 2010 Varuna LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award. Jane has a doctorate in Creative Arts (University of Western Sydney) and is currently working on another novel. She lives with her partner in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
Photography by Michelle Garrett
The Lives of the Dead short story collection begins and ends with a road trip. The outsider characters defy
authority. They seek or are captured by memories of the past, tied up inextricably in landscape. These travellers of highways and trainlines are preoccupied with the lives of the dead, lost children or parents. They carry fragments of memory which they seek to unite, restoring continuity in divided lives, and in this quest each must run up against a barrier, the fence, the boundary between the self and others.
'Sex, death, violence, sexual molestation, eccentricity, strangeness, all handled with clarity and compassion ... the language and description have the precision of poetry.’
—BARBARA BROOKS, writer & academic
Jane Skelton has published short fiction in literary journals and anthologies over the past 20 years and her novel earth eaters was a winner of the 2010 Varuna LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award. Jane has a doctorate in Creative Arts (University of Western Sydney) and is currently working on another novel. She lives with her partner in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
Photography by Michelle Garrett
