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The Rip by Robert DreweMost coastal dwellers have, at one time or another, had the terrifying feeling of being caught in a rip, where your legs are taken from under you and you are at the mercy of a force taking you somewhere beyond your control.Published 1 August, 2008 
Most coastal dwellers have, at one time or another, had the terrifying feeling of being caught in a rip, where your legs are taken from under you and you are at the mercy of a force taking you somewhere beyond your control. The metaphor is apt for this new collection of short stories from Robert Drewe. Set mostly in coastal New South Wales or Western Australia, each of these stories focusses in some way on life events beyond the control of its characters. There are the literal forces of nature—the impending tsunami in ‘Sea Level’, or the snakes in the meditative opening story ‘The Lap Pool’—but there are also the tides and eddys of human interaction. In the excellent ‘The Water Person and the Tree Person’, for example, a husband struggles with his wife’s sudden announcement that they are inherently incompatible. A son tries to come to terms with his recently remarried father and their old ways of relating in ‘The Whale Watchers’. Revelation is at the core of these stories. Truth comes in strange guises and in unexpected moments, which should leave literary customers (and lovers of Tim Winton) deeply satisfied. Shane Strange is a bookseller at Paperchain Bookstore, Canberra This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Fiction Book Reviews
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