A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O'Beirne urban-development From one of Australia's leading

From one of Australia's leading short-fiction writers comes a thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation

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A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O'Beirne urban-development From one of Australia's leadingThis brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australias least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the