Living on Mars: The Play

Living on Mars: The Play

by Bill Reed
Living on Mars: The Play

Living on Mars: The Play

by Bill Reed

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Overview

Henry had one good eye until the surgeon lost even that one’s lens down some drain. He had a wife he could call his own until she started to shack up very noisily with some young turk Australian postgraduate in his (Henry’s) own home. He had a housekeeper until she left in built-up disgust claiming Henry continuously confessed to some vague past unspeakable crime. Henry also had this itch which his new housekeeper – his wife’s cousin – could keep in check with her very personal fingernails. Then there was his house-full of irreplaceable objects until his new housekeeper’s husband came along and proceeded to methodically clean him out.

Try as he might, though, Henry couldn’t get rid of was his famous father’s specimen jars of Australian Aboriginal parts... an internationally acclaimed collection which no one, not even the housekeeper’s husband, wanted to rid him off.

All this was obviously conspiring to rob him of his morning banana.

The thing is he didn’t even have his Australia anymore since fate’s blindness had him stranded there in Port Moresby, where even people he didn’t know were outside gathering into an angry mob just because (he thinks) he is he.

Unfair is unfair no matter how incapable you are of looking at it.

Still, Henry always had the driven-self of living on Mars, if only he could have gotten around to it.
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Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas, and has won national competitions for drama and for long and short fiction.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940153100494
Publisher: Bill Reed
Publication date: 06/21/2016
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 181 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Bill Reed is an award-winning Australian novelist, playwright and short-story writer who has won national awards in each of these categories. He has resided in Sri Lanka for the last two decades through his South Asian connections through marriage. On the back cover of his last mainstream novel, Hyland House Publishing enthused that Tusk was another novel from ‘…one of the great originals of Australian literature… and one of our few writers of genius’. But then, in those days, Reed lived within the Australian publishing and literary worlds. Now he dwells contentedly outside the gates.

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