The Man in the Shed
Selected Stories
$23.79
- Paperback
266 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2009
Summary
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates.
Lloyd Jones’s The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family and longing. Jones’s extraordinary tales take conventional family situations and tilt them sideways, delivering a memorable, b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921520662 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921520663 |
| Author: | Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand’s best known contemporary writers. He has published essays and children’s books but his best known works include the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife, HandMe Down World and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers’ Prize. Mister Pip was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. He lives in the Wairarapa.
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