Bruce Hanna

Scrapheap of Dreams (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fourteen compassionate stories, from high society to the lowest, set at the fringes of reality where dreams prey on people's lives. These highly engrossing and often humorous stories immerse you in an intriguing variety of lives touched by obsession, prejudice, poverty, Asian voodoo, desire and lust, love, violence, crime and madness, false confidence and unfounded fears.

A cast of quirky characters collide in ambiguous situations, pressured by racial friction and religious divisions, financial and family tensions, unhappy love affairs and life-changing conflicts:
-a photographer's life-long devotion to a powerful journalist wins out against her taste for pretty young men
- an ambitious gigolo enters a beautiful and violent world of immense wealth, reverse racism, drug-popping chauffers, private jets, cops on the payroll and murder victims falling out of the sky...
- a scruffy barefoot romantic pursues a decrepit crone protected by a swarm of hungry orphans...
- a junkie finds friendship in a fashionable mystery-lady at a funeral....
- a captive man lives in fear of a psychopathic neighbour's fire-breathing dog....
- an ambitious doctor walks cheerfully through a remote village to perform a politically-sensitive abortion but life has other plans....
- a free and sometimes easy woman is used to repay a husband's debt to his brother....
- the marriage of a devoutly religious couple is shattered by a dope-smoking brother-in-law until prayers are answered in flames....
- a frigid TV beauty seeks sanctuary in a mirror to escape the nightmare of life's senseless cruelty....
- a high-ranking French cop in a Mediterranean resort village cannot understand why the woman of his dreams falls under the spell of a murder suspect....
- an Australian family divided by political prejudices fights the Cold War across their kitchen table, prior to the downfall of the Communist Party....
- an aged literary-minded patron of prostitutes rebels against his feminist wife in a misogynist fiasco....
- a highly-educated toilet attendant pursues a cunning one-legged woman, despite being stalked by the corpse of her dead husband...
And an Australian war veteran unleashes havoc in Bangkok to escape the clutches of the Thai underworld.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bruce Hanna
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370058709
• Artikelnr.: 49335795

Autorenporträt

"I'm not considered a proper writer in literary circles. My stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect on the windscreen of a speeding vehicle, straight from the gut, with a bit of heart and brain-juice in the mix."

"Each New Year I see fireworks exploding over cities round the World. I can't tell if they are celebrating the bombing of Hanoi, Bagdad, Ukraine, or Gaza, or somewhere else next."

"Pity the untold victims of Victory's sins, pieceworkers on the process-line of revenge, pawns in a game of Lose Your Way to the End, where all is concealed behind the shield of bloodstains, bullet-holes & election posters..." - The Slow Motion Murder of Julian Assange.

"My life went on for two seasons and ten episodes before I realised, I'd seen it all before."

"Behind my back one of the Communist Party big shots muttered, When you see him coming, tell your ears to run."

"People crack up the minute I walk in the door. I can't see what they're laughing for. Was it something I forgot to not say? Too bad..." - Mad Dog on Crazy Street.

"You can't make a peace sign when you're wearing a boxing glove." - Anthem for the 21st Century.

"My neighbour believed in the afterlife. She often said, the best place to pick-up a good man is down at the morgue. I thought she was joking, till I turned up at her wedding. She asked what I thought of her fiancée? I said, "To be sure, he's a cool looking dude. But how come he's naked? And why is that baggage ticket tied round his big toe?"

"After growing-up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, I became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to my refusal to collaborate in the US-led axis-of-evil against Vietnam. I was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government. But I got no medal as an anti-war Vet."

"While on the run, my writing and cartoons first appeared on fringes of the Australian press, continuing in The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune, Overland and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of poetry, in an illustrated homage Suicide Circus, in PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999), and my first novel, Fatal Moments (published by Angus & Robertson in 1987)."

"Peter Bowler (Canberra Times) remarked on the "delicious thread of dry humour r...