Pulse Points: Stories
Author: Down, Jennifer
ISBN: 9781925355970
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 232mm x 153mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia?s newest and most promising literary talents.
The characters in Jennifer Down?s Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors and perpetrators. In the award-winning Aokigahara, a young woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye. In Coarsegold, a woman conducts an illicit affair while her recovering girlfriend works the overnight motel shift in the middle of nowhere. In Dogs, Foggo runs an unruly gang of bored, cruel boys with a scent for fresh meat. In Pressure Okay a middle-aged man goes to the theatre, gets a massage, remembers his departed wife, navigates the long game of grief with his adult daughter.Jennifer Down, whose first novel, Our Magic Hour, was commended in the 2017 Victorian Premier?s Literary Award, is a masterful stylist whose sharp eye has been compared to that of Helen Garner. Pulse Points is a gutting collection that showcases a writer of great talent.
ISBN: 9781925355970
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 232mm x 153mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia?s newest and most promising literary talents.
The characters in Jennifer Down?s Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors and perpetrators. In the award-winning Aokigahara, a young woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye. In Coarsegold, a woman conducts an illicit affair while her recovering girlfriend works the overnight motel shift in the middle of nowhere. In Dogs, Foggo runs an unruly gang of bored, cruel boys with a scent for fresh meat. In Pressure Okay a middle-aged man goes to the theatre, gets a massage, remembers his departed wife, navigates the long game of grief with his adult daughter.Jennifer Down, whose first novel, Our Magic Hour, was commended in the 2017 Victorian Premier?s Literary Award, is a masterful stylist whose sharp eye has been compared to that of Helen Garner. Pulse Points is a gutting collection that showcases a writer of great talent.
