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These 14 magnificent new stories from Vincent O'Sullivan exhibit a shrewd understanding that pierces to the heart of what it means to be human. O'Sullivan can mock, satirize, and laugh, but he also finds dignity in unexpected places. He is interested in the art of living and in the borderland where truth and lies meet, both in life and in fiction itself.
About the author
Vincent O'Sullivan is former professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Waikato. He is the author of the novels
Believers to the Bright Coast and
Let the River Stand, which won a Montana New Zealand Book Award; the poetry collections
Blame Vermeer,
Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1999-2008,
Lucky Table, and
Seeing You Asked; and
Long Journey to the Border, a biography of John Mulgan. He is the coeditor of
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield,
and he has edited several major anthologies. He is the current poet laureate of New Zealand.
Summary
These 14 magnificent new stories from Vincent O'Sullivan exhibit a shrewd understanding that pierces to the heart of what it means to be human. O'Sullivan can mock, satirize, and laugh, but he also finds dignity in unexpected places. He is interested in the art of living and in the borderland where truth and lies meet, both in life and in fiction itself.
