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'We are Not the Same Anymore is a collection of short fiction about people trying to connect with each other and the difficulties of finding intimacy. In these stories, Chris Somerville plays out the small catastrophes of everyday life, cutting his characters adrift in the uneasiness that ensues. A man turns up at his daughter's birthday party with a goldfish in an ice-cream container. On the way to collect firewood, a woman and her teenaged neighbour crash in a snowstorm. An unwilling son helps his sister and father put up posters for a missing dog named Michael. Familiar and endearing, Somerville's characters are consumed with their own neuroses, and through their eyes, the landscape of the domestic becomes surreal and dully terrifying. Suffused with a dark humour, their struggles for intimacy are recreated on the page with a deft and affectionate touch.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication: For my father, Ian David Somerville
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Epigraph:
I wish simply to record that right now
life is madly good and please note
this is not at all whit I had come to expect.
-Marian Waller
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Exploring the Still-Life Turning Point
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 28 no. 1 2014; (p. 244-245)
— Review of We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
Chris Somerville : We Are Not the Same Anymore
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;
— Review of We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 April 2013; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Song in the Dark 2013 single work novel ; We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23-24 March 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
So Many Paths That Wind and Wind
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2013;
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Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23-24 March 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 April 2013; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Song in the Dark 2013 single work novel ; We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
Chris Somerville : We Are Not the Same Anymore
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;
— Review of We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , June no. 400 2013; (p. 46)
— Review of We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
Promise of Things Foretold
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 June 2013; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Letters to the End of Love 2013 single work novel ; We Are Not the Same Anymore 2013 selected work short story -
So Many Paths That Wind and Wind
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2013; -
What I’m Reading
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2013;
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