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Hold Your Fire
Chloe Wilson
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2024-07-18
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / World Literature / Australia
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
1398536776
9781398536777
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=olT0EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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From award-winning Australian author Chloe Wilson comes
Hold Your Fire
, a debut short story collection that will haunt you long after you turn the page.
A steely mother doubts her husband’s guts and her son's capability, until a playground incident dramatically escalates. A young couple move into a house in which there’s been a recent murder, and fall under the spell of their peculiar, commanding neighbours. Two sisters are determined to detoxify themselves into perfection. A diver pushes herself and those around her to dangerous heights. Interspersed with these stories are lightning strikes of
flash fiction: we glimpse a leopard in the apartment next door; plants grown out of a strange and miraculous soil; the spirit of a girl who’s been thrown down a well.
Needle-sharp, effortlessly surprising and beautifully controlled, Hold Your Fire is a debut collection that introduces a fierce new talent. At each turn, Chloe Wilson offers a unique insight, a tear in the veil of our moral certainties. Her stories strip away the varnish of our decency to reveal the raw, fascinating truth beneath.