Author | Beverley Farmer |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Publisher | McPhee Gribble |
Publication date | 1983 |
Media type | |
Pages | 178 pp |
ISBN | 0140071849 |
Preceded by | Snake |
Followed by | Home Time |
Milk (1983) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Beverley Farmer. It was published by McPhee Gribble in 1983.[1]
The collection includes 15 stories by the author from a variety of sources.[1]
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Writing in The Canberra Times reviewer Susan McKernan noted: "Farmer is a sensual writer — she describes food, the feel of sand or ice or sex, sunsets and sunrises, with a poet's understanding. Sometimes her ability to convey sensual experience is disturbing and even nauseating — as in her description of how it feels to have cancer of the cervix."[2]
After its original publication in 1983[3] the collection was reprinted by McPhee Gribble in 1990.[4]
The collection won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 1984.[5]