When I Saw the Animal

A brilliant short story collection by awarded novelist and former Vogel winner Bernard Cohen.

Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher’s new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country – it is a cameraman’s role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabong, or was he pushed?

Bernard Cohen’s stories are filled with incisive perspectives, captivating wit and dark, sharp humour.

REVIEWS:

“When I Saw the Animal is playful, inventive and bursting with insight into contemporary life and the ways we cope (or sometimes don’t). It’s a real joy to spend time in Cohen’s sometimes weird, sometimes achingly tender, always thrillingly imaginative world.”

Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident