Bloodrust and Other Stories
Bloodrust and Other Stories was selected as Fiction Pick of the Week, SMH & The Age newspaper
Frank depictions of family, mental health, youth, ageing, love and lust speak to the fragility of life, and to the dangerous games we play when we cross boundaries. Hidden beneath the mundanity is violence and decay, mirroring the natural environment so lyrically recreated in Prendergast’s raw prose … pollen that stains the local estuary water an unsettling red – Bloodrust.
ISBN: 9781925052909
Spineless Wonders, October 2022
Praise for Bloodrust and Other Stories:
‘Bloodrust and other stories is an engaging and refreshing collection of short stories, full of reality, truth and complex characters. It’s confronting at times, but in a way that stories need to be in order for the truth to be told.’
—reviewed by Jen Bowden in Westerly Magazine
‘Prendergast is a great observer of humans. She pulls no punches because she wants the truth.’
—Bruce Pascoe
‘These stories shun the sentimental and embrace the taboo.’
—Maria Takolander
‘Bloodrust is a remarkable collection of stories from a writer who shapes each sentence, each word, with care and precision.’
—Tony Birch
‘Earthed, confronting, visceral, and so achingly real.’
—Arnold Zable
‘Prendergast’s wildly experimental collection is a tour de force! Nothing ‘distant’ about it!’
—Meenakshi Bharat
‘Here is writing that is fraught and vulnerable, raw and openhearted …’
—Alan McMonagle
‘These stories are full of elegance, beauty and brilliance.’
—Roanna Gonsalves
‘Julia Prendergast is a sure-footed writer of intellectually provocative stories.’
—Shinie Antony
‘I love stories that cause visceral discomfort. I love these stories.’
—Tim Tomlinson, Writer, Director: New York Writers Workshop
‘The landscape and the body are where Prendergast’s dramas are played out in all their uncomfortable, cruel, generous and loving detail.’
—Barrie Sherwood
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