The Rip by Robert Drewe

The Rip

Author: Robert Drewe

Internationally acclaimed novelist Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against the backdrop of the Australian coast, as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers.

You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam seeking his Eve; sharing the fears of a small boy in a coastal classroom as a tsunami approaches; in an English gaol cell with an Australian surfer on drug charges; and witnessing a middle-ages farmer contemplating murdering the hippie who stole his wife.

Written in a variety of moods, always compassionate, wry and razor sharp, these dazzling stories are crafted by Drewe's incisive wit and passion.

'You will read the powerful short stories in this collection with your heart in your mouth. They are the stories of a writer at the top of his form, and they will attach themselves to you.'
Carmel Bird, THE AGE

'Thirteen exquisitely focused tales, all dealt with through a rich yet limpid literary chemistry, by what might be called a sumptuous minimalism.'
WEST AUSTRALIAN

The Penguin Book of the Beach

By Robert Drewe

The average Australian has conducted a lifelong love affair with the beach and the ocean shores, bays, dunes, lagoons and rivers of the coast. Until now, however, no one has attempted to match the ancient sensual and artistic preoccupation with the sea to the intuitive appreciation of the coast felt by modern beachgoers.

In this illustrious international selection, Robert Drewe has drawn together twenty-five...

Published: 18/09/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143006374

RRP: $29.95

Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins

By Robert Drewe

Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly is written with a brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy. It carries the reader into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation, an entrancing and frightening landscape of murder, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, politics, and corruption...

Published: 28/06/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143204763

RRP: $9.95

Savage Crows

By Robert Drewe

This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history – the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines – is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young present-day narrator. Breathtaking and visionary in its scope, The Savage Crows breaks new fictional ground in its affecting portrayal of the collision of worlds, generations and mythologies...

This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history – the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines – is seen through the eyes of an...

Published: 03/09/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141007991

RRP: $24.95

The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

By Robert Drewe

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection...

Published: 29/06/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143180241

RRP: $9.95

The Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems 2010

By Robert Drewe & Cate Kennedy

A special boxset of The Best Australian Stories 2010, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and The Best Australian Poems 2010 .

Published: 04/11/2010

Format: Box

ISBN: 9781863955072

RRP: $69.95

The Best Australian Essays 2010

By Robert Drewe

'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?'—Robert Drewe

Published: 04/11/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781863954945

RRP: $29.95

Sand

By Robert Drewe & John Kinsella

Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose.

Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are drawn. For Drewe and Kinsella, it evokes the memories - both personal and cultural...

Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose.

Sand is quintessentially...

Published: 07/10/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781921361883

RRP: $27.95