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In A Lovely and Terrible Thing, Chris Womersley has secured himself as one of Australia’s finest short-story writers.
Unflinchingly macabre and gloriously twisted, Womersley touches on some of life’s darker elements to display a cutting image of contemporary life. Each story is brought to life with a hint of absurdity, and Womersley’s dry humour makes for distressing yet compulsive reads.
I love short-stories, and I have endless respect for those authors who excel at them. There is a subtlety to each story in this collection that magnifies life’s smaller moments and turns them into calamitous, yet oddly comforting, events.
Unflinchingly macabre and gloriously twisted, Womersley touches on some of life’s darker elements to display a cutting image of contemporary life. Each story is brought to life with a hint of absurdity, and Womersley’s dry humour makes for distressing yet compulsive reads.
I love short-stories, and I have endless respect for those authors who excel at them. There is a subtlety to each story in this collection that magnifies life’s smaller moments and turns them into calamitous, yet oddly comforting, events.
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