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The Mermaid Boy
Paperback Edition: 1
The Mermaid Boy is the first book by John Summers, a writer born and raised in Christchurch. Its an unusual and distinctive book, telling true stories with the sort of crafted prose usually found in fiction.
From mattress manufacture to Burmese medicine, these stories explore
one mans experience with the exotic and the mundane. Funny, perceptive, and often surprising, The Mermaid Boy introduces striking new ways to write about love, travel, and home. Already, Steve Braunias has praised The Mermaid Boy, writing, These strange, fetching yarns of outsiders, losers and other average New Zealanders read like fiction, with their artful crafting of unlikely events theres a slow boat to China, a kid in a mermaid suit, and a dildo on a doorknob in a dingy flat in Christchurch. Its non-fiction as murky realism, and its down low, observational, fun. John's creative non-fiction has been published in Hue & Cry Journal, Turbine, JAAM and is forthcoming in Sport. His travel writing and book reviews have appeared in the New Zealand Herald and the Listener and The Press.
Pages : 160
Publisher : Hue & Cry
Publication date : 2015-05
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Fiction