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Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & (Hardcover)

by Anna Tambour (Author), Keith Brooke (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Prime,US (1 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1894815947
  • ISBN-13: 978-1894815949
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,491,556 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told--by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise--life itself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanted tales, 16 Dec 2003
By Ian H. Boyter "jazzzzer" (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & (Paperback)
Anna Tambour's wide-ranging collection of short stories 'Monterra's Deliciosa & other Tales &'
is a book you will want to read and read again. Her torrent of ideas and images comes at you fast and furious and washes you along in the current.

Dealing irreverently with a mix of ethical and moral issues as well as common-or-garden domestic and cultural situations she spins her enchanted tales in a refreshingly cliché-free yet richly-composted prose style which is never contrived. Her very personal cast of odd-ball characters; animals, humans, fish, insects, plants, machines and deities, interact in unexpected and thought-provoking ways.

These intriguing parables, fables and yarns, some only one or two pages long, some preceded with verses, are constantly entertaining, sometimes baffling and demanding, often comic and playfully surreal and now and then downright mad. If you like being led down the garden path and finishing up dazed, wandering in the wild Australian bush, then Tambour is for you.

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