Cover art for This Taste for Silence
Published
University Of Queensland, June 2019
ISBN
9780702260377
Format
Softcover, 1 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.8cm × 1.5cm

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A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O'Callaghan.

The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.

Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a 'taste for silence'.

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