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Vicky Swanky is a Beauty
Hardback
Main Details
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Vicky Swanky is a Beauty
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Diane Williams
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:128 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 191,Width 133 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781921924200
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Transit Lounge Publishing
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| Imprint |
Transit Lounge Publishing
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| Publication Date |
1 July 2012 |
| Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling stories-a cryptic meeting between neighbours, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire-are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling-the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.
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