Attraction
Author: Porter, Ruby
ISBN: 9781925773552
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 233mm x 153mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Winner of the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, Ruby Porter is a leading voice in young New Zealand Literature.
The present reckons with the past in Attraction. Porter's unnamed narrator is on a road trip between Auckland, Whangara and Levin with her friends Ashi and Ilana, haunted by the spectre of her emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend, her complicated family background and New Zealand's colonial history. Jealousies intensify as the young women work out who they are and who they might become.
ISBN: 9781925773552
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 233mm x 153mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Winner of the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, Ruby Porter is a leading voice in young New Zealand Literature.
The present reckons with the past in Attraction. Porter's unnamed narrator is on a road trip between Auckland, Whangara and Levin with her friends Ashi and Ilana, haunted by the spectre of her emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend, her complicated family background and New Zealand's colonial history. Jealousies intensify as the young women work out who they are and who they might become.
