TY - BOOK AU - Huon,Jess TI - The dark wet: short stories SN - 9781922146007 AV - PR9619 .D375 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Artarmon, NSW PB - Giramondo Publishing Company KW - Australian fiction KW - Australian literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; GROUND; The Invisible Boy; Earth; A WIDE LENS; Head First; Ghost Gums; Dance; Over Many Seas; THE LEOPARD; The Leopard Story; The Forgotten Gods; Rasa-Lila; Acknowledgements; 2; b N2 - The Dark Wet is the first collection of short stories by Jess Huon. Rich, lyrical and deeply felt, it explores the struggle towards a sense of self and belonging, expressed in three sequences of stories: that of Jed Harp, his lover Danny Hess, and his poet sister Alexandra; of Bell and Oliver, a couple moving between Melbourne and San Francisco; and of a young woman confronting religion and sex in a Christian community in India. Drawing on a rich range of settings, from the lush Top End of Australia, to the mountains of India, and vibrant urban centres, The Dark Wet is a brutally honest portra UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=516161&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -