Hell of a Thing, Sixteen Stories (eBook, ePUB)
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Michael Botur's work grabs you by the throat and won't let you go. His artful short stories throb with pain, hope, misunderstanding, reconciliation, remorse, and surprise. As one reviewer says, "The authenticity is so scary, you wonder where this man has been and what demons followed him home."With his sixth collection of stories, this leading young New Zealand author and journalist finds purchase for the first time with an American publisher. In Hell of a Thing, a cowardly father seeks a more exciting son; two lovers on a posh date dine on self-delusion; and an author turns his back on his pa...
Michael Botur's work grabs you by the throat and won't let you go. His artful short stories throb with pain, hope, misunderstanding, reconciliation, remorse, and surprise. As one reviewer says, "The authenticity is so scary, you wonder where this man has been and what demons followed him home."
With his sixth collection of stories, this leading young New Zealand author and journalist finds purchase for the first time with an American publisher. In Hell of a Thing, a cowardly father seeks a more exciting son; two lovers on a posh date dine on self-delusion; and an author turns his back on his pastuntil the past demands violent closure. We meet artistic terrorists, renegade daughters, an Uber driver from Waziristan, and a crew of casino kids up past their bedtimeeverything with a distinctive Kiwi flavor that lends a counter-clockwise swirl to otherwise familiar settings.
There is a ring of authenticity to Botur's dialogue and physical descriptions, an unvarnished street language punctuated with demotic vocabulary and agitated rhythms, combined in collages of invective, obscenity, and acute observation. Says a reviewer: "It's as if Mr. Botur hung out at fast-food outlets after midnightswilling bad coffee, listening to conversations, and jotting observational notes under the garish yellow lighting."
"Michael Botur's writing is a breath of fresh air. Just read him. You'll see what I mean. This dude can write."Alan Duff, MBE, author of Once Were Warriors
With his sixth collection of stories, this leading young New Zealand author and journalist finds purchase for the first time with an American publisher. In Hell of a Thing, a cowardly father seeks a more exciting son; two lovers on a posh date dine on self-delusion; and an author turns his back on his pastuntil the past demands violent closure. We meet artistic terrorists, renegade daughters, an Uber driver from Waziristan, and a crew of casino kids up past their bedtimeeverything with a distinctive Kiwi flavor that lends a counter-clockwise swirl to otherwise familiar settings.
There is a ring of authenticity to Botur's dialogue and physical descriptions, an unvarnished street language punctuated with demotic vocabulary and agitated rhythms, combined in collages of invective, obscenity, and acute observation. Says a reviewer: "It's as if Mr. Botur hung out at fast-food outlets after midnightswilling bad coffee, listening to conversations, and jotting observational notes under the garish yellow lighting."
"Michael Botur's writing is a breath of fresh air. Just read him. You'll see what I mean. This dude can write."Alan Duff, MBE, author of Once Were Warriors
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