Fiona Farrell
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Sull'Autore
Fiona Farrell was born in 1947 in New Zealand. She is a poet, fiction writer and playwright. Her novels include: The Skinny Louie Book, Mr Allbones' Ferrets, and Limestone. Her poetry titles include: Cutting Out, The Inhabited Initial, and The Pop-Up Book of Invasions. In 2015 her book, Villa at mostra altro the Edge of the Empire made The New Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Fiona Farrell
Paradise Ducks 1 copia
the ninth year 1 copia
Opere correlate
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1947
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Oamaru, New Zealand
- Luogo di residenza
- Oamaru, New Zealand
Dunedin, New Zealand
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand
Christchurch, New Zealand - Istruzione
- University of Otago
University of Toronto - Attività lavorative
- writer-in-residence (Canterbury University ∙ 1992)
lecturer in drama
poet
playwright
fiction writer - Organizzazioni
- Canterbury University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement ( [2007])
Michael King Writer’s Fellowship (2013)
Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 21
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 217
- Popolarità
- #102,846
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 43
- Lingue
- 1
Decline and Fall on Savage Street is certainly absorbing reading, though it is not until Part Two that the Christchurch earthquake makes its deadly appearance. The preceding 200-odd pages compress to cover the story of a house, beginning in 1906.
Farrell has a gift for description with occasional sly wit, as you can see in Chapter 2: The Floor Plan, Spring 1908:
The first family to live in this villa is a large one and Farrell traces a patchwork of events in their lives, in chapters that move biennially through most of the century, interleaved with the endless life-cycle of eels in the river. Each chapter begins and end mid-sentence, and people come and go, leaving behind only traces of their activity in the house and garden. When the last of that family is gone in the 70s, the house is found by Min, a bit of a flower-child who is looking for a share-house. The villa has seen better days:
Min persuades her friends to buy it together. They made an offer, all chipping in as much as they could:
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/14/decline-and-fall-on-savage-street-2017-by-fi...… (altro)