Camouflage: Stories

by Murray Bail

Book Overview

From the " world-class Australian novelist" ("The New York Times") comes a deft, angular, and highly entertaining collection of stories. " The Seduction of My Sister" tells of the increasingly bizarre events between siblings when a new family moves in across the street, while " Healing" recalls a vanished time when a boy's headlong, innocent rush into certain disaster could be averted by a simple miracle. A man named Huebler decides to photograph...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374118272
• ISBN13: 9780374118273
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Delightful

It's rather hard to summarize the content of this collection as a whole, since most stories are written from the perspectives of character very different from one another (i.e. social background, personality, or simply the circumstance one's situated in). Readers who look for variety in content and themes would enjoy as they go along and explore - be ready to be unsettled. I personally prefer the portrayals of seemingly insignificant individuals - the slides of a life and the vision of the world - quite subtly done, in an almost absurd but triumphant manner. Each of the story also has a fairly different form, which makes this collection a good example for students of creative writing. The writing itself, needless to say, is precise and sometimes poetic. A good choice for those who look for surprises in short fiction.