Rotoroa - Couverture souple

Head, Amy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1776561910 ISBN 13 : 9781776561919

Editeur : Victoria University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf, tiny and isolated, is home to a Salvation Army facility for alcoholic men. It's also where three people at very different points in their lives share a fleeting encounter. There is Katherine, known to history as Elsie K. Morton, famous journalist and author; Jim, an alcoholic with a young family; and Lorna, a teenage mother who has turned to religion, looking for a fresh start. As the stories of their lives are revealed, so too are their hopes and vulnerabilities. Set in the 1950s, as New Zealand society is starting to change under the pressure of new cultural energies, Rotoroa is a compassionate, beautifully unfolding examination of loss and the possibility of renewal. Told with subtlety and intelligence, this novel affirms Amy Head as a remarkable new voice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amy Head lives in Christchurch. Her first book, the short story collection Tough, was included in the NZ Listener and Metro best books lists for 2013 and was the winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2014.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Victoria University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1776561910
• ISBN 13: 9781776561919
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible