Published in 1983 by Phoenix Publications, Brisbane. A professor of medicine emotionally entangled with a patient, a business magnate in pursuit of immortality, poet-survivors from Europe, an abandoned actress, outcast children, bewildered migrants, revisited friends — sixteen stories telling of people ever in search, in search for love, closeness and consolation, and for values and meaning in a world that sets limits upon all that a man may know, attain to, hope for and believe.
“…a scope and depth of feeling that is the mark of a great short story writer…”
Contents:
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- Envy’s Fire (available to read here)
- Greetings, Australia! To You Have I Come! (available to read here)
- Words
- Passage (available to read here)
- Sustenance Was I To The Needy (available to read here)
- The First Lesson (available to read here)
- Moscow! Moscow! (available to read here)
- Bone Of My Bone, Flesh Of My Flesh (available to read here)
- All My Children (available to read here)
- The Real And Doubtful Virtues Of Silence (available to read here)
- King Lear Of The Gables or A Christmas Concert (available to read here)
- The Next In Line (available to read here)
- Kitty Cat (available to read here)
- Friends (available to read here)
- The Fortress (available to read here)
A professor of medicine emotionally entangled with a patient, a business magnate in pursuit of immortality, poet-survivors from Europe, an abandoned actress, outcast children, bewildered migrants, revisited friends — sixteen stories telling of people ever in search, in search for love, closeness and consolation, and for values and meaning in a world that sets limits upon all that a man may know, attain to, hope for and believe.