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'A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part acclaimed writer of short stories and novels, and part national conscience.
'A cola company uses the last wild polar bears as billboards. A boy is forced to compose poems for cats. A dog starts a race-riot. A zebra shames two armies. A zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in the ape's head. In New Guinea Zookeepers eat their exhibits. In Gippsland the face of The Lord appears on dairy cows. In the Western Desert mummified egg-bandits hang from trees...
'By these incidents the Nature of Man is compellingly exposed. And the many and varied species of Mother Earth are wry spectators as Man pilots the planet he thinks he owns into the wall of oblivion.' (From the publisher's website.)
'A cola company uses the last wild polar bears as billboards. A boy is forced to compose poems for cats. A dog starts a race-riot. A zebra shames two armies. A zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in the ape's head. In New Guinea Zookeepers eat their exhibits. In Gippsland the face of The Lord appears on dairy cows. In the Western Desert mummified egg-bandits hang from trees...
'By these incidents the Nature of Man is compellingly exposed. And the many and varied species of Mother Earth are wry spectators as Man pilots the planet he thinks he owns into the wall of oblivion.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Works about this Work
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Animal Crackers a Satirical Reality
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20 August 2011; (p. 33)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 27)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
A Better Sort of Animal than Man
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 August 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
In Short : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 August 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
Stories with Global Reach
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 - 14 August 2011; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story ; Take Me Higher : New and Collected Stories 2011 selected work autobiography prose ; Permission to Lie 2011 selected work short story
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Fiction : Reviews
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 - 7 August 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
Stories with Global Reach
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 - 14 August 2011; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story ; Take Me Higher : New and Collected Stories 2011 selected work autobiography prose ; Permission to Lie 2011 selected work short story -
In Short : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 August 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
A Better Sort of Animal than Man
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 August 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 27)
— Review of Pepsi Bears and Other Stories 2011 selected work short story
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