Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay (English) Paperback Book

Description: Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country.A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men.With her trademark humour, energy, and flair, McKay offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans.The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways, showing the world both as it is and as it could be.Startling, beautiful, and dangerous. McKay is the brightest of talents. Were lucky to have her.-Robbie Arnott, author of LimberlostAmidst a pile of shed skin and fur, McKay moulds a kaleidoscopic and horrifyingly real portrait of life at the fringes. By turns gritty, surreal, and absurd, Gunflower isnt afraid to weigh flesh on the scales of our own judgments, a delicate balancing act between life and death, connection and disconnection. Perhaps part Kelly Link and Ottessa Moshfegh, McKay delivers an assured follow-up to The Animals in That Country in her own singular voice that zeroes in on our anxieties and existential crises with deft and often poetic flair.-Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the DarkGunflower is like a swarm of small earthquakes- nothing is steady anymore, and the world feels bigger, scarier, almost transcendent in its strangeness.-Miles Allinson, author of In Moonland FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe, 2020) - winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, and the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year, and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc., 2013). She was awarded the NZSA Waitangi Day Literary Honours in 2022. Review Quote Praise for The Animals in That Country : This is a game-changing, life-changing novel, the kind that comes along right when you need it, and compels you to listen to its terrifying poetry. Compulsively readable and yet also pushing the boundaries of what is possible in terms of language and narrative, this is a brilliant and disturbing book that will make you rethink everything you thought you understood about non-human animal sentience and agency. I dont think any reader can ever forget a voice like Sue the dingos -- wise and obscene in equal measure. A triumph. Details ISBN1922585947 Author Laura Jean McKay Publisher Scribe Publications Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1922585947 ISBN-13 9781922585943 Format Paperback Imprint Scribe Publications Place of Publication Carlton North Country of Publication Australia Pages 256 Publication Date 2023-10-03 Audience General NZ Release Date 2023-10-02 AU Release Date 2023-10-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145306272;

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