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Difficult presents, Chris Else
The Spaces Between Russell Haley Adastra Productions, $25.00, ISBN 9780473203856 Little Sister Julian Novitz Vintage, $29.00, ISBN 9781869798246 The Intentions Book Gigi Fenster Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864738233 The Spaces Between is Russell Haley’s eighth book…
Tagged with: Adastra Productions, Chris Else, Gigi Fenster, Issue 99, Julian Novitz, Russell Haley, Spring 2012, Victoria University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The one that got away, Russell Haley
Royce, Royce, the People’s Choice Peter Hawes Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414985 Peter Hawes’s new novel is a big, jocular and elaborate fishing yarn. The tale-telling is strenuously masculine, prodding, very physical. As you read, you feel as though you’re…
Tagged with: Issue 56, Peter Hawes, Random House, Russell Haley, Summer 2001
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
Sidelong reflections, Norman Bilbrough
All Done With Mirrors Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 68 3 This is the sort of novel you could search through – in vain – for a narrative skeleton: the firm coat-hanger from which the story is…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 43, Norman Bilbrough, Russell Haley
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Strangers in a strange land, Chris Else
A Spider-Web Season and The Transfer Station Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161799 Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold …” This line from Yeats is the epigraph to Russell Haley’s first book, The Walled Garden (1972). It…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 47, March 2001, Russell Haley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Can you believe what they say? New novels and recent history, John Needham:
Besides Myself Russell Haley Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Night at the Embassy Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, 1990, $24.95 Newlands Gary Langford Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Like a lot of middle-aged men, Midge, the out-of-work hero-narrator of Russell Haley’s latest…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1991, Elizabeth Smither, Gary Langford, Issue 1, John Needham, Penguin, Russell Haley
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review