As good a collection as I've read in an age. And the stories are all connected, so it has the feel of a loose novel. Just tremendous writing and (small-town) world-building

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Winton's book contains some of those clippings so popular in Australian English: bronzies, deckie, Landy, oldies, vollies, wetty, and others.

Without context it's hard to guess them unless you know AusEng. I've updated my post on the phenomenon:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/australian-clippings-in-peter-temples-truth/

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Australian clippings in Peter Temple’s ‘Truth’

Australian English has a famous tendency to abbreviate words, doing so frequently and in a variety of ways. Clipping comes first, then the stump may be suffixed with an –er, –o, –s, –ie or –y, etc.…

Sentence first

99 comments on that blog post about abbreviations in Australian English 👀 From 2015. Those were the days.

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