Ruin: And Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781776920662)

Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-- with varying degrees of success-- to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-- and sometimes the violence they exact in revenge. While doubts about a romantic partner, an abandonment by a sister, the fallout of a parent's pornography addiction, the betrayal of a friend, even the desire to touch a stranger's fur-like body are subtler aggressions that pack their own kinds of punches. Moving between contemporary New Zealand and London, and a dreamlike landscape that isn't quite real, this debut collection shimmers with a brutal kind of hope, exploring power and its contortions, powerlessness and its depravities, and the ends to which we will go to claim back agency.

Author: Emma Hislop
ISBN-10: 177692066X
ISBN-13: 9781776920662
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2023
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback