The House of Breathing

This original, dazzling and wide-ranging collection of short stories from acclaimed author Gail Jones takes the reader around the world and covers topics ranging from poetry, to Freud, to the Titanic.'Jones's (Fetish Lives) tales could be read for the sheer enjoyment of her unusual, eclectic subject matter and her poetic technique. Yet the very precision of her language and her brilliantly expressive imagery encourage the reader to consider the deeper meanings of the text.' — Publishers Weekly, USIn 1991, The House of Breathing won the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, and was published in 1992 to immediate acclaim, winning the Western Australian Premier's Fiction Award, the Steele Rudd Award, and the Barbara Ramsden Award. Described in the UK's Daily Telegraph as 'a novelist who deserves to be celebrated', Gail Jones's work has been critically acclaimed, widely translated, and won multiple awards including The Age Book of the Year, the...