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Original Title:	Here Until August ISBN13 9781948226073
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	The Stella Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2020)

Here Until August: Stories

Josephine Rowe

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 213 Users | 43 Reviews

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Title	:	Here Until August: Stories
Author	:	Josephine Rowe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	October 8th 2019 by Catapult
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Contemporary

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The stories in Here Until August follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are traveling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds. These are people who move with the seasons. We meet them negotiating reluctant or cowardly departures, navigating uncertain returns, or biding the disquieting calm that so often precedes moments of decisive action.

In one story, an agoraphobic French émigré compulsively watches disturbing footage from the other side of the world as she attempts to keep a dog named Chavez out of trouble. In another, a young couple weather the interiority of a Montreal winter, more attuned to the illicit goings-on of their neighbors than to their own hazy, unfolding futures. Other stories play out against the fictional counterparts of iconic Australian and American locales, places that are recognizable but set just beyond the brink of familiarity: flooded townships and distant islands, sunlit woodlands or paths made bright by ice, places of unpredictable access and spaces scrubbed from maps.

From the Catskills to New South Wales, from the remote and abandoned island outports of Newfoundland to the sprawl of a North American metropolis, these transformative stories show us how the places where we choose to live our lives can just as easily turn inward as outward.

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A very intriguing short story collection; I would happily read a full-length novel about each of these people.



SWOONSVILLE. The kind of work that makes writers (okay, me) fall into despair because apparently at the cosmic buffet table some of us were serving themselves great heaping platters full of genius while I was busy scooping a fallen Circus Peanut off the floor. Every single one of these stories is pitch-perfect & captivating. Damn.

If you love short stories, get your hands on this.

Beautiful, memorable stories, with the kinds of endings that knock the wind out of you.

What an incredible collection of stories. Rowes writing is exquisite, her characters, her phrasing, the way she conjures emotions and places. I am in absolute awe. I was once a great lover of silence, or at least certain silences. In the time when silences were still promises. A hush, I suppose, is the better word for what I loved - a quietness that looks forward to a particular moment but is in no particular hurry to get there.

A brilliant collection. Rowes writing is tonally masterful shifting adroitly between moods and perspectives, pressing into the tender spots of human connections. Every sentence is perfectly balanced and I read many of them twice for the sheer pleasure of great writing. Her style is pristine but never forced or pretentious. Her descriptions are original but authentic, and I love the way the very short final story, What Passes For Fun, literalises a metaphor.