Dream Stuff (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Malouf
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic
- Time of Work: 1984
- Setting: Brisbane, Australia
- Principal Characters: Colin Lattimer, Coralie, Eric, An unidentified attacker
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, Dreams, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia
The Story
This dreamlike story, about a writer who returns to his native Brisbane, Australia, to give a reading of his work and is attacked by a mysterious man, begins with the writer's earliest memory. His mother's Doberman, Maxie, is ill with heartworm and crawls under the house to die. Colin crawls in after him and stays there holding him the whole day until his father crawls under and coaxes him out. This memory is connected to another one, from a year later, in which his father tries to teach Colin how to swim. As Colin gasps and thrashes to stay afloat, he wears the same...
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