Enjoying the New Landscape: Short stories by Mark MacLean

John Hughes writes in The Idea of Home that 'What we feel homesick for . . . is not a place itself, but the unrecoverable moment of leaving that place, and the fact that it is never the same place to which we return.'

These stories by Mark MacLean are about the idea of home, our sense of place and about landscape and memory. Whether we're in the deserts of Australia or the north of England, we long for the places we are not. We envy the world traveller and the ninety-year-old living in the home she was born in with equal measure. We cherish the places known as much as the places imagined and the places remembered. The new landscapes are the old landscapes revisited.

This collection includes 'Unte nthenharenye?' which was a runner up in the The University of Sydney's David Harold Tribe Fiction Award

Mark MacLean is an award-winning writer who lives in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.

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Enjoying the New Landscape: Short stories by Mark MacLean

John Hughes writes in The Idea of Home that 'What we feel homesick for . . . is not a place itself, but the unrecoverable moment of leaving that place, and the fact that it is never the same place to which we return.'

These stories by Mark MacLean are about the idea of home, our sense of place and about landscape and memory. Whether we're in the deserts of Australia or the north of England, we long for the places we are not. We envy the world traveller and the ninety-year-old living in the home she was born in with equal measure. We cherish the places known as much as the places imagined and the places remembered. The new landscapes are the old landscapes revisited.

This collection includes 'Unte nthenharenye?' which was a runner up in the The University of Sydney's David Harold Tribe Fiction Award

Mark MacLean is an award-winning writer who lives in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.

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Enjoying the New Landscape: Short stories by Mark MacLean

Enjoying the New Landscape: Short stories by Mark MacLean

by Mark MacLean
Enjoying the New Landscape: Short stories by Mark MacLean

Enjoying the New Landscape: Short stories by Mark MacLean

by Mark MacLean

Overview

John Hughes writes in The Idea of Home that 'What we feel homesick for . . . is not a place itself, but the unrecoverable moment of leaving that place, and the fact that it is never the same place to which we return.'

These stories by Mark MacLean are about the idea of home, our sense of place and about landscape and memory. Whether we're in the deserts of Australia or the north of England, we long for the places we are not. We envy the world traveller and the ninety-year-old living in the home she was born in with equal measure. We cherish the places known as much as the places imagined and the places remembered. The new landscapes are the old landscapes revisited.

This collection includes 'Unte nthenharenye?' which was a runner up in the The University of Sydney's David Harold Tribe Fiction Award

Mark MacLean is an award-winning writer who lives in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780980737707
Publisher: Hunter Press
Publication date: 10/26/2021
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Mark MacLean was born Ulverston, Lancashire (now Cumbria), and spent the first 20-odd years of his life in the village of Ireleth. He now lives in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, where he works as a teacher at the Central School.Mark has written several books that usually combining his interest in place and identity.His book A Year Down the Drain, based on his popular blog about his exploration of Newcastle's stormwater drains, became a surprise bestseller in 2013.The stories in his collection The New Landscape drew upon his time living in locations as diverse as Cumbria, where he grew up, and Alice Springs, where he lived for several years and worked as the publisher at an Aboriginal adult education college.His memoir Five Boxes (published in Australia and the UK) looks at our connection to the past through our possessions. Five Boxes won the Zeferelli's People's Choice category of the Lakeland Book of the Year awards.
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