Futility and Other Animals
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Futility and Other Animals Paperback ISBN: 9781740511384 Published: 01/02/2008 Imprint: Vintage Australia Extent: 240 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP
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Futility and Other Animals EBook ISBN: 9781742746609 Published: 26/10/2011 Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult Extent: 240 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
In some ways, the people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. Some of the people are central members of the tribe while others are hermits who live on the fringe. The shared environment is both internal - anxieties, pleasures and confusions - and external - the houses, streets, hotels and experiences.The central dilemma is that of giving birth, of creating new life.The experiences of the inner city ambience are shown through stories of growing up, leaving home, coming to the city from the country, or returning there; first love affairs, hetero- or homosexual; and finding a peer group, a life style, an ideology, and the anti-ideology of Libertarianism.
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