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'A young man can’t make love. A pedantic father spots a blemish in his new shorts and returns to the shop to demand their exchange. A girl rocks up to a Tinder date wearing a helmet.
'In nineteen short stories, No Neat Endings pits its characters against the challenges of modern life, sex, love, work and the world. A man observes his brother’s rise to comic stardom with envy and angst. A father faces his fortieth with mortal paranoia. A friend returns from Brazil to become embroiled in a drug-fuelled romp in a share house. It doesn’t work out. For so many of the characters in these stories, it doesn’t end well. They succumb to their own vices, impulses, insecurities. They have, more often than not, only themselves to blame.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: For our mother, Gail, who has loved us so much.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Short but Far from Sweet
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 June 2020; (p. 19)
— Review of Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story -
Four Auspicious Début Collections by Mandy Beaumont, Dominic Carew, Wayne Marshall, and Sean O'Beirne
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story ; Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; A Couple of Things Before the End : Stories 2020 selected work short story'The American writer Jack Matthews had no time for what he called ‘a discontent’ with the brevity of the short story. ‘Ask a coral snake,’ he declared, ‘which is as deadly as it is small.’ The claim for ‘deadliness’ certainly applies to four recent début collections; in the tight spaces of the short story, each one presents confronting ideas about contemporary Australia.' (Introduction)
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Four Auspicious Début Collections by Mandy Beaumont, Dominic Carew, Wayne Marshall, and Sean O'Beirne
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story ; Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; A Couple of Things Before the End : Stories 2020 selected work short story'The American writer Jack Matthews had no time for what he called ‘a discontent’ with the brevity of the short story. ‘Ask a coral snake,’ he declared, ‘which is as deadly as it is small.’ The claim for ‘deadliness’ certainly applies to four recent début collections; in the tight spaces of the short story, each one presents confronting ideas about contemporary Australia.' (Introduction)
-
Short but Far from Sweet
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 June 2020; (p. 19)
— Review of Shirl 2020 selected work short story ; Wild Fearless Chests 2020 selected work short story ; No Neat Endings : Stories 2020 selected work short story