The Art of Broken Things - Anderton, Joanne
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A marriage dissolves in the middle of a spacewalk... A lonely robot searches for the remains of a long-lost child... An empty nester is haunted by victims of the bushfires that surround her home... These are tales of breaking and rebuilding, falling apart and being put back together. The stories in The Art of Broken Things blur the line between genres to explore some of our deepest, most fundamentally human concerns: what does it mean to build a family? And what are we willing to sacrifice, to keep that family together? From multiple award-winning author Joanne Anderton comes a new collection of dark science fiction, horror, and weird.…mehr

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A marriage dissolves in the middle of a spacewalk... A lonely robot searches for the remains of a long-lost child... An empty nester is haunted by victims of the bushfires that surround her home... These are tales of breaking and rebuilding, falling apart and being put back together. The stories in The Art of Broken Things blur the line between genres to explore some of our deepest, most fundamentally human concerns: what does it mean to build a family? And what are we willing to sacrifice, to keep that family together? From multiple award-winning author Joanne Anderton comes a new collection of dark science fiction, horror, and weird.
Autorenporträt
Joanne Anderton is an Australian author of speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, and children's books, who until recently was living and working in rural Japan. Her speculative fiction includes the novels in the Veiled Worlds series - Debris, Suited and Guardian - and the short story collections The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories and Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear. She has won multiple awards for her speculative fiction, including the Australian Shadows Award, Ditmar and Aurealis Awards.Her children's picture book The Flying Optometrist, was published by the National Library of Australia and was a CBCA notable book. Her non-fiction has been published in Island Magazine, Meanjin and The Japan News.Joanne has a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing, and worked for many years in book publishing, marketing and distribution. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland.