A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part acclaimed writer of short stories and novels, and part national conscience. A cola company uses the last wild polar bears as billboards. A boy is forced to compose poems for cats. A dog starts a race-riot. A zebra shames two armies. A zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in the ape's head. In New Guinea Zookeepers eat their exhibits. In Gippsland the face of The Lord appears on dairy cows. In the Western Desert mummified egg-bandits hang from trees...By these incidents the Nature of Man is compellingly exposed. And the many and varied species of Mother Earth are wry spectators as Man pilots the planet he thinks he owns into the wall of oblivion.

Author Biography

Anson Cameron has written five critically acclaimed novels- Silences Long Gone, Tin Toys, Confessin the Blues, Lies I Told About a Girl, and Stealing Picasso, as well as a collection of short stories, Nice Shootin Cowboy. He was born in Shepparton in 1961 and lives in Melbourne where he writes a column for the Age newspaper.