A Universe of Clowns

Published in 1983 by Phoenix Publications, Brisbane.

“…a scope and depth of feeling that is the mark of a great short story writer…”

Contents:

  • A Universe of Clowns
  • Envy’s Fire
  • Greetings, Australia, To You Have I Come (available here to read)
  • Words
  • Passage
  • Sustenance Was I to the Needy
  • The First Lesson
  • Moscow! Moscow!
  • Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh
  • All My Children
  • The Real and Doubtful Virtues of Silence
  • King Lear of “The Gables”
  • The Next in Line
  • Kitty Cat
  • Friends
  • The Fortress

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.