Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Ruin
Paperback Edition: 1
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they trywith varying degrees of successto outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives.
Theres the physical violence of men against their bodiesand sometimes the violence they exact in revenge. While doubts about a romantic partner, an abandonment by a sister, the fallout of a parents porgnography addiction, the betrayal of a friend, even the desire to touch a strangers fur-like body are subtler aggressions that pack their own kinds of punches.
Moving between contemporary New Zealand and London, and a dreamlike landscape that isnt quite real, this debut collection shimmers with a brutal kind of hope, exploring power and its contortions, powerlessness and its depravities, and the ends to which we will go to claim back agency.
Pages : 192
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2023-04-13
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets