Salt

A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.This volume of Bruce Pascoe s best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, traverses his long career and explores his enduring fascination with Australia s landscape, culture and history. Featuring new fiction alongside Pascoe s most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction including from his modern classic Dark Emu Salt distils the intellect, passion and virtuosity of his work. It s time all Australians know the range and depth of this most marvellous of our writers. Salt demonstrates why Bruce Pascoe s voice is important to the country. Kim Scott A paradigm shift ... a wonderful expanse of thinking and storytelling ... In prose that is funny in one moment and devastating the next, Pascoe moves us from wry humour [to] the deep sadness that follows the wonder of discovering a history of richness and fullness deliberately obscured. Marie Matteson, Readings