Wall / Jen Craig
- Bib ID:
- 10012619
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Craig, Jen, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- Waratah, NSW : Puncher & Wattmann, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 192KB
- ISBN:
- 9781922571847
- Technical Details:
- Mode of Access: Available online.
- Summary:
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A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complications that she had thought, in leaving the country, she had put behind her - a tangle that ensnares her before she arrives.
A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist, Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complications that she had thought, in leaving the country, she had put behind her -- a tangle that ensnares her before she even arrives.
A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist, Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complications that she had thought, in leaving the country, she had put behind her - a tangle that ensnares her before she even arrives. 'Wall is an extraordinarily compacted work of rich complexity, humour, and sadness. Its narrator's steadfast desire to explain herself, to clarify the seemingly unclarifiable, is as close to mirroring the roiling momentum of real consciousness that I've read in a modern novel. When I read Jen Craig I find it impossible to imagine a better way to capture the mysterious workings of the mind - its inadvertent epiphanies, its loose but determined associations, its cruelly recurring entrapments - without writing just like her. But no one else could.
- Notes:
- General.
- Awards:
- Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist 2024.
- Subject:
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- Song, Dong, 1966- -- Fiction
- Art -- Exhibitions -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Homecoming -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Art and artists
- Families and family life
- Grief and grieving
- Miles Franklin Award nominations
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts
- Trauma
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nominations
- Families
- Fiction - Literary
- Fiction - Psychological
- Grief
- Loss (Psychology)
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- AUS fiction (Australia)
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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