Camouflage

First edition thus. Crown 8vo. Pp. [viii], 85, [3 (blank)]. Charcoal-grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Quint Buchholz.

Two novellas and a short story previously published separately. The title novella, 'Camouflage', tells the tale of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent North to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is 'The Seduction of My Sister', an account of sibling rivalry and love, originally published in Max Suich's Independent monthly, and in book form by The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, in the 1998 collection, The Drover's Wife and Other Stories.

The much-anthologised short story, 'The Drover's Wife,' was originally published in Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories (1975), by the University of Queensland Press. The 2000 Australian edition by Text Publishing, prints the two novellas only.

Recipient of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Eucalyptus. "Meticulously pared down, his wonderfully imaginative stories have a resonance well beyond their modest proportions." –The Economist