Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0330270923 (ISBN13: 9780330270922). The Bay Of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontations of gender, race and generations with an ironic desperation born of love, lust and wistful memory. Contents Radiant Heat Machete The First Motel Mandalay River Water The Lawyers of Africa The Needle 'Story' All the Boys Sister Life of a Barbarian The Hammett Spiel The Bay of Contented Men