SOURCE: “The Cockatoos,” in The Peacocks and the Bourgeoisie, Adelaide University Union Press, 1978, pp. 131-37.
In the following excerpt, Myers examines the title story of The Cockatoos, asserting that it “is not a short story but a remarkably compressed novella” that integrates complex narrative methods and variations in mood.
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