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Pushing Back

Pushing Back

by John Kinsella
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/2021

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The tall trees nearby called them up and red-tailed black cockatoos carried messages to them that they told no one else about.

Pushing Back is John Kinsella's most haunting and timely fiction to date. It is populated with eccentric, compelling characters, drifters, unlikely friendships, the silences of dissolving relationships, haunted dwellings and lonely highways, the ghosts of cleared bushland and the threats of right-wing nationalists and senseless destruction.

A couple make love in an abandoned asbestos house, a desperate carpet cleaner beholden to the gig economy begs a financially distressed client not to cancel his booking, an addict cannot bear to see his partner without the watch he once gave her, a mother casts her shearer son's ashes on the property on which he worked, fascists pile into a little red car with the intent of terrorising tourists on the Nullarbor, a man more at home with machinery than people rescues a drowning kitten.

Yet throughout this assured distillation of contemporary Australian life, empathy rises like the red- tailed black cockatoos that appear and reappear, nature coalescing with the human spirit, the animals, the trees, the land, the people pushing back. These stories are at once disturbing, tender and hopeful.

ISBN:
9781925760712
9781925760712
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-2021
Publisher:
Transit Lounge Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
352
John Kinsella

John Kinsella's most recent volumes of poetry are Sack and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems His collection, Jam Tree Gully (WW Norton, 2012), won the 2013 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry.

His volume of stories In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award. Tide, a collection of stories, was published by Transit Lounge in 2013. Crow's Breath (Transit Lounge, 2015) was shortlisted for WA Premier's Book Awards Fiction Prize 2016.

He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and Professor of Sustainability and Literature at Curtin University.

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