Foreword / Priscilla Kincaid-Smith -- Introduction / Edmund Campion -- The payback / Tutama Tjapangarti -- 1940s (The lottery / Marjorie Leonard ; Under the bridge / Dan Davin ; Firecracker / James Bendrodt) -- 1950s (Easy money / John Morrison ; Better
than Australia, no? / Thelma Forshaw) -- 1960s (Willy-Wagtails by moonlight / Patrick White ; The milk run / Christian Stead ; The tractor / Peter Cowan) -- 1970s (Hostages / Fay Zwicky ; The painter / Janet Frame) -- 1980s (The Sun in winter / David Malouf ; Life of art / Helen Garner).
An anthology of short stories exemplifying the lives of people living in Australia and New Zealand between 1938 and 1988.
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