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Salt

Selected Stories and Essays

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Salt

By: Bruce Pascoe
Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
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A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.

Bruce Pascoe has been described as a ‘living national treasure’ and his work as ‘revelatory’. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, ranges across his long career and explores his enduring fascination with Australia’s landscape, culture, land management and history.

Featuring new and previously unpublished fiction alongside his most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction - including extracts from his modern classic Dark Emu - this collection is perfect for Pascoe fans and new listeners alike. It’s time all Australians saw the range and depth of this most marvellous of local writers.

©2019 Bruce Pascoe (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Anthologies & Short Stories Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Fiction Oceania Short Stories World Literature Nonfiction
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Such a beautifully written stories which give deep insight into the core of this country and it’s relationships. If all Australians read Salt, we’d be a better nation. Thank you Bruce!

Insightfully Delightful

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This is such a beautiful, pertinent collection, delivered in a uniquely Australian way. Loved every minute of it.

Beautiful and pertinent.

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I really enjoyed listening to Bruce bring the stories to life. some funny and some sad but all worthwhile

Excellent collection of stories

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Giving a more deeply Australian and salt water character to Dark Emu and Convincing Ground, by contextualizing into Bruce Pascoe's own living experience. A series of love stories to Australia and her women and Mrs Pascoe.

Gives Australian context and character to Dark Emu

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Really enjoyed the pictures Pascoe paints with incredible nuance and heartbreaking clarity. Well worth your time.

Beautifully poetic and raw.

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Boring, dull and repetitive . This isn't a novel, its a hectoring lecture to racists and climate change deniers.

But as those people wouldn't touch this author, the book is a wasted opportunity when Pascoes's fans already think respectfully like he does.

So what was the point in getting tress chopped down to sell this book about "not abusing the earth and respect for the land". Also the author shouldnt read his own work . Hire a professional

Hypocritical

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.