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A less than perky light, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Gith Chris Else Random House, $27.99, ISBN 9781869790134 Show of Hands Anthony McCarten Random House, $29.99, ISBN 9781869419950 Swimmer’s Rope Stephanie Johnson Random House, $29.99, ISBN 9781869790257 At the first look there’s not much to tie these three novels together.…
Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Chris Else, Issue 86, Random House, Stephanie Johnson, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Winter 2009
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Flashing and fizzing, David Hill
Brilliance Anthony McCarten Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415515 A man of the people David Geary Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734409 Two Kiwi lads make good. That’s if you treat noun one and adjectives two-through-three elastically enough. Both these writers “divide…
Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Autumn 2003, David Geary, David Hill, Issue 61, Victoria University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The trouble with Harry, Catherine Hill
Tomorrow Tastes Better Russell Haley HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503910 The English Harem Anthony McCarten Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414640 What exactly is a comic novel? The question arises because comedy is the common feature of Tomorrow Tastes Better and The…
Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Catherine Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 55, Random House, Russell Haley, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Swimming with the tide, Sally Sutton
The Sound of her Body Laurence Fearnley Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 25 X Night Swimming Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 376 8 Spinners Anthony McCarten Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 355 5 The American poet Randall…
Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Emma Neale, Hazard Press, Issue 38, Laurence Fearnley, Sally Sutton, Vintage
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review