Milk (short story collection)

Milk (1983) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Beverley Farmer. It was published by McPhee Gribble in 1983.

The collection includes 15 stories by the author from a variety of sources.

Contents

Dedication

• "All of us are passing through no matter where we go...." Stratis Myrivilis, The Mermaid Madonna

Critical reception

Writing in The Canberra Times reviewer Susan McKernan noted: "Farmer is a sensual writer — she describes food, the feel of sand or ice or sex, sunsets and sunrises, with a poet's understanding. Sometimes her ability to convey sensual experience is disturbing and even nauseating — as in her description of how it feels to have cancer of the cervix."

Publication history

After its original publication in 1983 the collection was reprinted by McPhee Gribble in 1990.

Awards

The collection won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 1984.

See also

• 1983 in Australian literature

References