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'In these sixteen tales, Robert Power captures the joys and frailties of seemingly ordinary lives with extraordinary perception and wit. The stories take us from a Manhattan diner to a train station in Vietnam, from the Wild West to small town Australia, in a dazzling display of faith in language and in life.
'A man staying in New York pretends to be blind and inveigles his way through the defences of a lonely diner waitress; a child beggar in Vietnam makes his determined way through loss and into the world; a father falls prey to the temptations of the internet; a client discovers his psychiatrists startling secret; and a wife sends a beautiful, but shocking, letter to her husband, the postman. Each delicious story transports the reader into another world and life with authorial grace and an assured lightness of touch.' (Publication summary)
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Review : Meatloaf in Manhattan
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; (p. 70)
— Review of Meatloaf in Manhattan 2014 selected work short story -
Australian Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 June 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of Foreign Soil 2014 selected work short story ; Captives 2014 selected work short story ; Meatloaf in Manhattan 2014 selected work short story ; The Tribe 2014 selected work novella
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Australian Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 June 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of Foreign Soil 2014 selected work short story ; Captives 2014 selected work short story ; Meatloaf in Manhattan 2014 selected work short story ; The Tribe 2014 selected work novella -
Review : Meatloaf in Manhattan
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; (p. 70)
— Review of Meatloaf in Manhattan 2014 selected work short story