Antonia Hildebrand

A Simple Twist of Fate

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Produktbeschreibung

These stories show how your fate is twisted by choices you make. In one tale, a woman realises how carefully she ignored signs of her lover's deceit, and the pages of another woman's diary show how much abuse she accepted before taking a final, violent revenge. One woman delights in the character quirk that made her a dedicated thief while another, the victim of childhood abuse, struggles to reclaim her sexual self. An adult son contemplates the boyhood bargain he made with a crab, to save his mother's life, and a forty-year-old learns that freedom to choose means making a difficult decision. But individuals do not live in isolation, and their destiny is also shaped by their place in a shared world. The writer describes the stages of her personal experience in the light of popular songs she enjoyed with her contemporaries, and as she remembers a visit to Rome, she contemplates the various phases of the city's brutal but fascinating history. And after the upheaval of 2016, she wonders how the character of one man will affect the fate of the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ginninderra Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781760419394
• ISBN-10: 1760419397
• Artikelnr.: 59872824

Autorenporträt

Antonia Hildebrand is a poet, short story writer and essayist. She was born and educated in Toowoomba, Queensland. She married Reinhard Hildebrand in the early seventies and moved with him to Hamburg, Germany. She lived and worked in Europe for three years and also travelled in Europe and Asia before returning to Australia. She then studied at the Toowoomba Technical College, going to evening classes before gaining admission to the University of Queensland and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1987 with a major in English literature. In 1993 she graduated Master of Letters (German) from the University of New England. Her first published short story, 'Nothing Ever Happens', appeared in Woman's Day in 1981 and Downs Images in 1982 and she has since been widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies in Australia as well as Britain and the USA. Her poems have appeared in Coppertales, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poetrix, Harvester and Squidink. From 2000 to 2002 she was a member of Crime Writers Queensland and had two stories published in their books - 'The Weeping Madonna' in Menace in the Mulga and 'Second Nature' in Bad to the Bones. Her short stories have appeared in Downs Images, Woman's Day, Shortz, First Edition Magazine, Tirra Lirra and Four W Seventeen. An essay on John Howard, 'Ordinary Australians', was published in Overland in 2003. In 1998 she won the University of Southern Queensland Library Poetry Prize and in 1999 the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award. In 2002 she began contributing to Radio National's Bush Telegraph program. Many of her short stories have been broadcast by Queensland Storyteller on Radio 4RPH and by Words and Music on Radio 91.3 FM. Her Radio National pieces and her film reviews and essays were collected for her book The Past is Another Country: Viewpoints, Essays & Reviews published in 2003. She has also explored growing to adulthood, living in Europe and returning to Australia in the years 1951 to 1975 in her memoir Beautiful Life. In 2004 she co-wrote, with John Boshammer, Boshy and Me, a biography of his rugby legend father, Kev Boshammer. A poetry collection, The Sweet Time, was published in 2006. Other publications include The Blind Colossus, an essay collection, 2015; To Breathe and Other Stories, 2016; and War Stories, a poetry collection, 2017. She was elected president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland (2015-2016).