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Fiction
by Susan Sheridan
December 2018, no. 407

The Butcherbird Stories by A.S. Patrić

Transit Lounge, $29.99 hb, 256 pp, 9781925760101

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In 2016 A.S. Patrić’s first novel, Black Rock, White City won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Two years earlier (he told an interviewer) he couldn’t even get a rejection slip for it: not one of the big Australian publishers responded when he sent the manuscript. The independent company Transit Lounge took it on, and the rest is history. Or, rather, the rest of Patrić’s work comes into the light: Transit Lounge has since published his second novel, Atlantic Black (2017), and now this, his fourth collection of short fiction.

 


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The Butcherbird Stories by A.S. Patrić

Transit Lounge, $29.99 hb, 256 pp, 9781925760101

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


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