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Fathoms deep, James Robins
The New Ships Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561889 It’s a deeply distressing thing to find the word “bugger” on the first page of a New Zealand writer’s novel. Rather like opening some French fiction to discover “sacré…
Tagged with: Issue 123, James Robins, Kate Duignan, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Writing in circles, Kate Duignan
Caroline’s Bikini Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $33.00, ISBN 9780571339334 Caroline’s Bikini is a text written by Emily Stuart, in which she “takes dictation” from her oldest friend, Evan Gordonston, recently returned from the United States to London, and helplessly…
Tagged with: Faber and Faber, Issue 123, Kate Duignan, Kirsty Gunn, Spring 2018
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
People like us, Jane Westaway
Holy Days Joy Cowley Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004169 Breakwater Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734174 Floating the Fish on Bamboo Adrienne Jansen HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503988 Domestic realism is the meat and potatoes of contemporary fiction. So it…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 53, Jane Westaway, Joy Cowley, Kate Duignan, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature