'Nice+Shootin'+Cowboy'

'Nice Shootin' Cowboy' Anson Cameron

Blurb: In these blackly humorous and twisting tales, Anson Cameron takes you to the darker fringes of the nation's heartland, where babies are traded illegally out of Ford Falcons, red cordial makes men weep, and the great Australian dream has all but dried up. Love them, like them, or hate them. Anson Cameron's heroes are ordinary people, all trying to make a quid and beat the system. This is life as immortalised by Tim Winton and Andrew McGahan - where getting by is an art form and getting ahead is for other people. In //Nice Shootin', Cowboy// this ragged realism meets sparse and graceful prose in a rare fusion. Gritty with irony and spiked with wit, //Nice Shootin, Cowboy// is a finely crafted collection of award-winning stories which heralds a brave and resonant new voice in Australian Literature.

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Activities: [] These are the questions relating to the first story in //Nice Shootin', Cowboy,// 'Whatever Varnished Fish Mean'.

[] These are the questions and the comparative table on the first four stories in //Nice Shootin', Cowboy.

[]// This is a worksheet that looks at a range of stories and questions some of the ideas and concerns raised in the text.