Me and Mr Booker: Text Classics
Text Classics
$17.08
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2017
Summary
The Text Classics edition of Cory Taylor’s extraordinary debut novel, Me and Mr Booker, a sharply observed and darkly comic story about lust, deceit and the line between adolescence and adulthood.
Martha could have said no when Mr Booker tried to kiss her. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a dull town, her father is mad, her home is stifling. Of course she would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with whiskey and cigarettes, adventure and sex—whatever the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925498271 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1925498271 |
| Author: | Cory Taylor |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘A vibrant, questioning and unpredictable read.’
‘Elegant and controlled and wickedly funny.’ – David Vann
‘Cory Taylor’s Me and Mr Booker has the heart of Lolita and the soul of Catcher In The Rye, this is one of the most assured debut novels I have ever read. These characters feel so real that they become almost family. Refreshing, surprising, sexy and ultimately very moving.’ – Krissy Kneen
‘A vibrant, questioning and unpredictable read.’ * West Australian *
‘Cory Taylor’s characters are magnificently created.’ – Australian
‘Me and Mr Booker is sharply observed and blackly comic, but it is also a tender depiction of love, sex, power and one girl’s heartbreaking step into adulthood.’ * Australian Bookseller + Publisher *
Cory Taylor
Cory Taylor was born in Queensland in 1955. She was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who also published short fiction and children’s books.
Her first novel, Me and Mr Booker, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Pacific Region) in 2012, and her second novel, My Beautiful Enemy, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2014.
She died on 5 July 2016, a couple of months after Dying: A Memoir was published.
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