Owen Marshall selected stories / edited by Vincent O'Sullivan.

Supper waltz Wilson -- A Southland girl -- The tsunami -- Descent from the Flugelhorn -- The master of big jingles -- Mr Van Gogh -- The charcoal burners' dream -- Cabernet Sauvignon with my brother -- Prince Valiant -- Thinking of Bagheera -- Requiem in a town house -- The late call -- Kenneth's friend -- The divided world -- The seed merchant -- The paper parcel -- The fat boy -- The day Hemingway died -- Another generation -- The frozen continents -- Valley day -- Mumsie and zip -- Trumpeters -- A poet's dream of Amazons -- The Ace of Diamonds Gang -- Lilies -- Iris -- The rule of Jenny Pen -- 309 Hollandia -- The rose affliction -- Heating the world -- Pluto -- Supplication for position -- A view of our country -- The Dungarvie festival -- Tomorrow we save the orphans -- Working up North -- The occasion -- Cometh the hour -- Growing pains -- Rebecca -- Peacock funeral -- Goodbye, Stanley Tan -- The birthday boy -- A late run -- The devil at Bruckners' pond -- The language picnic -- End of term -- How it goes -- An indirect geography -- Mr Tansley -- Wake up call -- Buried lives -- Facing Jack Palance -- Family circle -- Images -- Buster -- Minding Lear -- Hodge -- Watch of gryphons.

"From the substantial body of work created over the last thirty years, Vincent O'Sullivan has selected sixty stories that give a wide representation of Marshall's range"--Cover.