A review by spacerookie
10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year by Kathy Lette, Peter Temple, Monica McInerney, William McInnes, Melina Marchetta, Thomas Keneally, Anita Heiss, Jack Marx, Toni Jordan, Robert Drewe

3.0

Some of the stories from this book are a little bland; others are provoking and well-written. I enjoyed the pieces by William McInnes (an accountant lives out of hotel rooms and fights meaninglessness) and Monica McInerney (an old woman devotes most of her energies to her fictional Christmas letters but turns out to be less lonely than she seems).

A real gem the last story in the collection, Jack Marx's Letter from a Drunk to a Long Gone Wife. Poetry in prose, literally. It's rare I come across anything like it.