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The weight of a human heart / Ryan O'Neill.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF ONEI	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781908699206
Name	O'Neill, Ryan, 1975-
Title	The weight of a human heart / Ryan O'Neill.
Published	Brecon, [U.K.] : Old Street, 2012
Description	229 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes	Originally published: Australia, Black Inc., 2012.
Contents	The cockroach -- English as a foreign language -- Africa was children crying -- Four letter words -- Seventeen rules for writing a short stoty -- A speeding bullet -- The Chinese lesson -- A story in writing -- The genocide -- A short story -- A room without books -- Figures in a marriage -- Last words -- The footnote -- The examination -- Unsderstand, understood, understood -- July the firsts -- The saved -- Tyypographyy -- The eunuch in the harem
Summary	'The Weight of a Human Heart' turns the rules of storytelling on their head. A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary feud, and an affair, play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother's disturbing secrets.
Subjects	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subjects	Marriage -- Fiction
Genre	Short stories
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction . Marriage -- Fiction . Short stories . See Also: Fiction . Authors: O'Neill, Ryan, 1975- .