Landscape with Solitary Figure -Shonagh Koea Novel Book
Landscape with Solitary Figure
Author: Shonagh KoeaPublisher: Vintage New ZealandCategory: Contemporary FictionBook Format: PaperbackA novel about the transporting power of the imagination, about overcoming violence, and about the beauty and resilience of a solitary life. Ellis has come to appreciate her solitary life, in her bungalow not far from the sea. As she looks from her window, she begins to find a way to confront and yet distance the past. Gradually, she edges towards and away from the time she moved to another town, the one she subsequently fled from. It was in this town that she met the man who invited her to his dinner parties and who took particular interest in knowing her biggest fear. In revealing what he did to her, Ellis also describes how she survived . . . Written in Shonagh Koea's distinctive style, this compelling novel is at times darkly humorous but also deeply unsettling.
About Shonagh Koea
Shonagh Koea has published short stories, novels and memoir. North & South commented that Shonagh Koea has a command of prose, an originality of expression, a sophisticated wit and a richness of imagery, which makes her writing a delight. She won the Air New Zealand Short Story Award (1981), her novel Sing to Me, Dreamer was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards (1995), and The Lonely Margins of the Sea was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction (1999). She has held the University of Auckland Fellowship in Literature (1993) and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship (1997). Koea s territory is the contrast between domestic misery and various forms of withdrawal or escape (The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature), and she has been described as addictive as nicotine or coffee with, perhaps, major withdrawal symptoms (Nelson Evening Mail). Poet Alistair Paterson said of Staying Home and Being Rotten, This is not merely a good book, but a work of brilliance. It establishes Shonagh Koea as a leading New Zealand novelist and a writer of international significance. iThe Kindness of Stra(BK-9781775535881)
| SKU | BK-9781775535881 |
| Barcode # | 9781775535881 |
| Brand | Vintage New Zealand |
| Artist / Author | Shonagh Koea |
| Shipping Weight | 0.1400kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.130m |
| Shipping Height | 0.020m |
| Shipping Length | 0.200m |
| Assembled Length | 19.800m |
| Assembled Height | 2.100m |
| Assembled Width | 13.400m |
| Type | Paperback |
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