A Universe of Clowns
Published in 1983 by Phoenix Publications, Brisbane. 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.
“…a scope and depth of feeling that is the mark of a great short story writer…”
Contents:
- Envy’s Fire
- Greetings, Australia! To You Have I Come!
- 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.