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| Author | Beverley Farmer |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | McPhee Gribble |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| 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]
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