{"product_id":"hebes-lament-and-other-stories-9781764005791","title":"Hebe's Lament and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'These brilliant stories buzz in the mind like a wasp at a window, long after the last page has been turned.' \u003c\/em\u003eCarol Lefevre, author of \u003cem\u003eBloomer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGay Lynch sets her first collection, Hebe's Lament and Other Stories,  in the contemporary cities of Budapest and Cabourg, Melbourne and Shanghai, along with historical Ireland and rural South Australia where she has lived as an adult and child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZeitgeisty paradoxes - anarchy and care, death and dying, nature and its destruction, poetry and play, sex with bots, violence and justice, fractured hope - generate riffs from feminist, social realist and speculative perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlinded by indecision, protagonists act. An art academic rescues a beautiful boy, an accountant abandons her dementing father, a coroner risks her reproductive rights, a DFAT careerist falls for a commitment-phobe, a dirt farmer cares for his disabled child, a vet student loses her dog at a Celtic festival, a police officer takes a king hit in the line of duty, tutors harass students, a homeless woman becomes stranded at a writers' festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection's lead story, 'Hebe's Lament', won the 2024 American Association of Australasian Literary Studies prize for Creative Prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hembury Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764005791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Gay Lynch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51798346563765,"sku":"9781764005791","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a48fd12d-734d-4c9f-ae0e-a922634e4302.jpg?v=1758638177","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hebes-lament-and-other-stories-9781764005791","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}