The End of the World

By: Paddy O'Reilly

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Paperback | 2 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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A sparkling collection of award-winning short stories Stylistically varied and enlivened by a wry, dark humour, this collection shows Paddy O'Reilly living up to the promise shown in her debut novel The Factory. With subtlety and assurance, O'Reilly creates narrative voices and situations spanning a broad range of experience - an alien visitor who communicates in the language of romance, a woman waiting for her death, a case of confused identity, and the sour taste of relationships lost or abandoned. O'Reilly's characters are at once defiant and accepting, curious and bewildered. From Japan to suburban Australia, and onto a place where larger, odder things are possible, The End of the World plays with our perceptions of reality.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories Modern & Contemporary Fiction Science Fiction

Speak to Me	p. 1
Inheritance	p. 15
Save Our School	p. 24
My Mother-in-law in the Family Tree	p. 41
The End of the World	p. 53
Armadillo	p. 62
FutureGirl	p. 73
The Rules of Fishing	p. 86
Snapshots of Strangers	p. 99
The Wrestlers	p. 110
The Last Visit	p. 117
Women's Trouble	p. 131
Inches Apart	p. 144
Where We Come From	p. 149
The Litter	p. 163
Glass Heart	p. 182
Fluid	p. 195
Distance Runner	p. 208
Acknowledgments	p. 223
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