Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self...Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you...You recognise one ather, this is your relief and your ruin. They are your duty. They stun you with the sudden presence and force of their goodness. They give you Christmas presents that show you are strangers. You love them; it cant be explained why or how. - from Charlotte Woods' Introduction to Brothers and Sisters. Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood's acute ability to dissect sibling relationships in her vels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in her books to brilliant effect. Here, Charlotte brings her skills to an anthology of stories by well-kwn and new writers - Tony Birch, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Robert Drewe, Ashley Hay, Cate Kennedy, Nam Le, Roger McDonald, Paddy O'Reilly, Virginia Peters, Michael Sala, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood - who have written about an element of sister/brother relationships, both in fictional and n-fictional forms.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
ISBN-10
1742375936
ISBN-13
9781742375939
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109195610
Product Key Features
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies
Genre
Anthologies
Dimensions
Weight
400g
Height
208mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Sydney
Edited by
Charlotte Wood
First Published
2011
Author Biography
Charlotte Wood Is the Author of Pieces of a Girl, the Submerged Cathedral, and the Children.