Firelight: stories
Author(s): John Morrissey
An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister.
A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance.
A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet.
In this striking collection of stories, the award-winning John Morrissey investigates colonialism and identity without ever losing sight of his characters’ humanity.
Brilliantly imagined and masterfully observed, Firelight marks the debut of a writer we will be reading for decades to come.
John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. His work has been published in Overland, Voiceworks, Meanjin and the anthology This All Come Back Now. He was the winner of the 2020 Boundless Mentorship and the runner-up for the 2018 Nakata Brophy Prize.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Text Publishing Company
- : Text Publishing Company
- : 0.327
- : 01 July 2023
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- : books
Special Fields
- : John Morrissey
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 256
- : FYB