SALE ON NOW! PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Pepsi Bears and Other Stories

Anson Cameron

$34.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Vintage
01 August 2011
Daring and provocative short stories from one of Australia's best comic writers.

Daring and provocative short stories from one of Australia's best comic writers.

A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part acclaimed writer of short stories and novels, and part national conscience.

A cola company uses the last wild polar bears as billboards. A boy is forced to compose poems for ats. A dog starts a race-riot. A zebra shames two armies. A zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in the ape's head. In New Guinea Zookeepers eat their exhibits. In Gippsland the face of The Lord appears on dairy cows. In the Western Desert mummified egg-bandits hang from trees...

By these incidents the Nature of Man is compellingly exposed. And the many and varied species of Mother Earth are wry spectators as Man pilots the planet he thinks he owns into the wall of oblivion.

What the critics say about Anson Cameron-

'...one of the most interesting writers of his generation... has an imaginative largesse and sentence-by-sentence articulation that soars above the pack' -- Peter Craven, The Australian

'...prose that fizzes with energy and humour, leaping from the scatalogical to the lyrical, from the earthy to the sublime' -- The Adelaide Advertiser

'Cameron writes a tough, gutsy story that is so well crafted you know there's someone behind the wheel from the word go' -- The Age
By:  
Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 157mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   306g
ISBN:   9781864711721
ISBN 10:   1864711728
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anson Cameron has written five critically acclaimed novels, Silences Long Gone, Tin Toys, Confessin' the Blues and Lies I Told About a Girl, Stealing Picasso, as well as a collection of short stories, Nice Shootin' Cowboy. He was born in Shepparton in 1961 and lives in Melbourne where he writes a column for the Age newspaper.

Reviews for Pepsi Bears and Other Stories

'...one of the most interesting writers of his generation... has an imaginative largesse and sentence-by-sentence articulation that soars above the pack.' - Peter Craven, The Australian. '...prose that fizzes with energy and humour, leaping from the scatalogical to the lyrical, from the earthy to the sublime.' - The Adelaide Advertiser. 'Cameron writes a tough, gutsy story that is so well crafted you know there's someone behind the wheel from the word go.' - The Age.


See Also