Slices, a title taken from Zola’s description of good drama as ‘a slice of life’, contains sixteen stories that explore a range of often capricious and sometimes predictable responses to the challenges life presents. The stories explore the nature of memory and imagination, friendship and love, decline and loss, searching and fulfilment, and even the ridiculous. Collectively, they offer insight into the human condition, and pose challenging questions for the reader.
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Laurie Brady’s main literary output has been poetry; he has had six books of poetry published. Educated at Sydney and Macquarie universities, he has spent most of his working life in teacher education. He recently retired as professor of education at the University of Technology, Sydney. This is his first book of short stories.