Fiona Kidman

eBook, ePUB

All the Way to Summer (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of love and longing

Beschreibung

A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from an exceptional writer. Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s, and she has since continued to tell the realities of women's lives, her books resonating with many readers over the years and across the world. To mark her 80th birthday, this volume brings together a variety of her previously published stories as well as several that are new or previously uncollected; all moving, insightful and written with love. The final stories trace her own history of love, a memoir of significant people from childhood and beyond.

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Autor

Fiona Kidman has published over 30 books, including novels, poetry, non-fiction and a play. She has worked as a librarian, radio producer and critic, and as a scriptwriter for radio, television and film. The New Zealand Listener wrote: 'In her craft and her storytelling and in her compassionate gutsy tough expression of female experience, she is the best we have.' She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships; in more recent years, The Captive Wife was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction and was joint-winner of the Readers' Choice Award in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and her short story collection The Trouble with Fire was shortlisted for both the NZ Post Book Awards and the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. Her novel This Mortal Boy won the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the NZ Booklovers Award, the NZSA Heritage Book Award for Fiction and the Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing Award for Best Novel. She was created a Dame (DNZM) in 1998 in recognition of her contribution to literature, and more recently a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour. 'We cannot talk about writing in New Zealand without acknowledging her,' wrote New Zealand Books. 'Kidman's accessible prose and the way she shows (mainly) women grappling to escape from restricting social pressures has guaranteed her a permanent place in our fiction.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143773665
• Artikelnr.: 61990343

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Praise for All the Way to Summer

'A magnificent book . . . Fiona Kidman is a splendid writer and this book exceeds expectations. Tales of loss and betrayal and twisted love abound in this perfect collection' Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

'Kidman's quiet, deft narratives startle with flashes of sensuous images . . . wise, subtle tales' Kirkus Reviews

'Kidman's subtlety and her trust of the reader's intellect is a vein that runs through her work . . . insightful, restrained in parts, and always beautiful. They do not make a fuss, but they will sure as hell make you cry' Otago Daily Times

'Powerfully encapsulates love in all its forms . . . the deep-felt love that springs from her acute powers of observation, a tight-knit family and enduring friendships' Daily Post

Praise for Fiona Kidman

'Kidman's prose is precise, detailed, lyric' Irish Times

'Magnetic' New York Times

'Kidman, a poet, is a beautiful writer' The Times

'A masterful storyteller' The Lady

'A truly gifted writer' Trip Fiction