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Emma Hagestadt,Christopher Hirst
Friday 28 May 1999 23:02 BST
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Glorious Things

by Barbara Anderson,

Cape, pounds 8.99

130pp

FEATURING SUN-bleached motels and therapists' waiting rooms, Barbara Anderson's New Zealand-based short stories could just as well be set in southern California. A writer attuned to all shades of domestic sadness, her uncluttered and distinctive prose describe couples on the verge of break-up, or locked together in decade-old conflict: husbands and wives battling it out over travel arrangements and maps, young lovers trying to squeeze happiness out of a beach weekend. Best known for her award- winning novel Portrait of the Artist's Wife.

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