Vanishing Points
WHA, $29.95pb, 0855614781
Fiction
Vanishing Points by Thea Astley
by Nigel Krauth •
Draw an outline of the Cape York Peninsula, far north Queensland. Just a rough one. An isosceles triangle, more or less. Now draw its mirror image away from the baseline. Imagine it in 3-0. Two cones. Two cyclones joined, spinning in opposite directions. Male and female vortices balancing each other, consuming each other. That’s it. Two novellas making a novel: Thea Astley’s brilliant Vanishing Points.
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Vanishing Points
by Thea Astley
WHA, $29.95pb, 0855614781
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