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A Few Days In The Country & Other Stories

A Few Days In The Country & Other Stories

And Other Stories

by Elizabeth Harrower
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/04/2016

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'One day,' Alice said, 'Eric Lane wants to take me to - '
For the first time, her mother attended, standing still. 

Eric was brought to the house, and Eric and Alice were married before there was time to say 'knife'. How did it happen? She tried to trace it back. She was watching her mother performing for Eric, and then (she always paused here in her mind), somehow, she woke up married and in another house.

Internationally acclaimed for her five brilliant novels, Elizabeth Harrower is also the author of a small body of short fiction. A Few Days in the Country brings together for the first time her stories published in Australian journals in the 1960s and 1970s, along with those from her archives - including 'Alice', published for the first time earlier this year in the New Yorker.

Essential reading for Harrower fans, these finely turned pieces show a broader range than the novels, ranging from caustic satires to gentler explorations of friendship.

Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize

ISBN:
9781925240566
9781925240566
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-04-2016
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
216
Dimensions (mm):
217x140x23mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Elizabeth Harrower

Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928. She lived in Newcastle until her family moved back to Sydney when she was eleven. In 1951 Harrower travelled to London and began to write. Her first novel, Down in the City, was published there in 1957 and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she returned to Sydney, where she worked in radio and then in publishing.

Her third novel, The Catherine Wheel, appeared in 1960. Harrower published The Watch Tower , the novel often called her masterpiece, in 1966. Four years later she finished In Certain Circles, but withdrew it from publication at the last moment. The novel was finally published in 2014, to great acclaim. As well as novels Harrower wrote short stories, most of which are collected in A Few Days in the Country (2015).

She is one of the most important postwar Australian writers. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, who both became lifelong friends. Her fiction is now reaching a new generation of readers and writers. Elizabeth Harrower lives in Sydney.

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