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Short Stories

Nineteen Seventysomething by Barry Divola

by Carol Middleton
May 2010, no. 321

Nineteen Seventysomething by Barry Divola

Affirm Press, $24.95pb, 200 pp

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Nineteen Seventysomething is the second of the Long Story Shorts collections published by Affirm Press. It is a series of linked stories by author, journalist and music critic Barry Divola, set in the fictional Australian town of Braithwaite, in the 1970s, and told from the perspective of an adolescent boy, Charlie.

 


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Nineteen Seventysomething

Nineteen Seventysomething by Barry Divola

Affirm Press, $24.95pb, 200 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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