Ruin
And Other Stories
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"Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try - with varying degrees of success - to outmanoeuvre the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies - and sometimes the violence they exact in revenge. While doubts about a romantic partner, an abandonment by a sister, the fallout of a parent's pornography addiction, the betrayal of a friend, even the desire to touch a stranger's fur-like body are subtler aggressions that pack their own kinds of punches. Moving between contemporary N...
"Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try - with varying degrees of success - to outmanoeuvre the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies - and sometimes the violence they exact in revenge. While doubts about a romantic partner, an abandonment by a sister, the fallout of a parent's pornography addiction, the betrayal of a friend, even the desire to touch a stranger's fur-like body are subtler aggressions that pack their own kinds of punches. Moving between contemporary New Zealand and London, and a dreamlike landscape that isn't quite real, this debut collection shimmers with a brutal kind of hope, exploring power and its contortions, powerlessness and its depravities, and the ends to which we will go to claim back agency"-- Publisher information.
![Cover The Certain Efficacy of the Death of Christ, Asserted ... in Answer to a Book [By I. Watts] Called the Ruin and Recovery of Mankind](https://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/67/67106/67106704n.jpg "The Certain Efficacy of the Death of Christ, Asserted ... in Answer to a Book [By I. Watts] Called the Ruin and Recovery of Mankind")
