Summary
If you and I are in the same entertainment venue for this stand-up comedy special and I am my body and you are my audience I run to you and shout your name into the dark, in the hope you are there.
Yes, you dear reader attentive listener.
This is a story about the end days of a tech company and its all-powerful owner, told in the style of a stand-up comedy special.
Prophetic, propulsive and absurdly entertaining, kluge is a workplace satire about artificial in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923229 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923227 |
| Author: | pip adam |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 139mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
‘An audacious, dazzling masterpiece. I love you, Pip Adam, put me on a leash and drag me to Hell.’ —Hera Linsday Bird
‘a work of outrageous genius’ —Jordy Rosenberg
pip adam
pip adam is Tangata Tiriti and a fiction writer who lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
She is the author of four novels:
- Audition (2023)
- Nothing to See (2020)
- The New Animals (2017, winner of the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction)
- I’m Working on a Building (2013)
And the short story collection:
- Everything We Hoped For (2010, winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction)
Audition was published in Australia by Giramondo and in the UK by Peninsula Press.
pip makes the Better off Read podcast.
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