The Measure of Sorrow by J Ashley-Smith
Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow,draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle's insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781946154774 |
| ISBN 10 | 1946154776 |
| Title | The Measure of Sorrow |
| Author | J Ashley-Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Meerkat Press |
| Year published | 2023-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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