Sue Orr

The Party Line (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You'll be reminded of Fiona Kidman, R.H. Morrieson - Maurice Shadbolt even, but it's always the author's own voice that speaks. . . . It seems a while since rural New Zealand made a strong showing in our fiction. Orr does it in this forceful, sinewy story. Plot and character rule. Style is sturdy, with just a few outcrops of adjectives. She gets the teenage tone just right. Sit down with this only when you have time to spare. You'll be held.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775537564
• Artikelnr.: 44175397

Autorenporträt

Sue Orr is the author of two short story collections. Etiquette for a Dinner Party (2008) won the Lilian Ida Smith Award and From Under the Overcoat (2011) was shortlisted for the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and won the People's Choice Award. Her fiction has been published in New Zealand and international anthologies and translated into Spanish. In 2011 she was the Sargeson Buddle Findlay Fellow. She has taught creative writing at Manukau Institute of Technology and Massey University and has a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University, Wellington. 'If you only have time for one new local writer in your life then make sure it is Sue Orr,' wrote novelist and critic Nicky Pellegrino in the Herald on Sunday. Etiquette for a Dinner Party presents 'a wonderfully diverse, yet believable collection of characters and maladies stretching across a classic New Zealand landscape' (The Otago Daily Times), with stories which offer an 'intriguing, sharp-eyed exploration of gaps and misunderstandings between people, and gaps between hopes or expectations and reality, with some nicely black twists and turns thrown in' (The New Zealand Listener). Fiona Kidman wrote of From Under the Overcoat: 'Sue Orr's stories have that mesmerising quality that makes the reader race on, hoping they will never end, yet desperate to find out what happens next. Their stylishness marks a new departure in contemporary short-story writing, her weaving of new and vibrant stories on to concepts that began with the great masters is high-wire risk taking that succeeds magnificently. I admire these stories immensely: by turn tender, sly, comic, and always deeply informed about the ways of the human heart.' Orr has a twitter account: @SueMOrr.