Pet
Stories
$18.44
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2020
Summary
PET
Noun: A tamed animal kept for companionship or pleasure; A person treated with special favour. Verb: Stroke or pat; Engage in erotic touching.
Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. In these 18 stories, we meet a girl in a standoff with the neighbourhood goose killer, a druggy who turns possums into pop culture icons, and an emotional support animal gone wild.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780473522575 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0473522578 |
| Author: | Kathryn van Beek |
| Publisher: | Mary Egan Publishing |
| Imprint: | Mary Egan Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2020 |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 146mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
“These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sharp, taut, brilliantly written exposés of our untamed behaviour to each other. Kathryn’s writing is intense and merciless but totally entertaining and gripping from start to finish.” —Stuart Hoar (author of The Hard Light)
About The Author
Kathryn van Beek
Kathryn van Beek is one of the most intriguing voices in contemporary New Zealand literature. A graduate of Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters, Kathryn is the winner of the Mindfood Short Story Competition and the Headland Short Story Prize. She is also the momager of Aotearoa’s third most famous cat. Stories from Pet have been, or will be, published in The Sunday Star-Times, Takahē, Headland, Bonsai, Newsroom, The Valley Review, Geometry and Fresh Ink. The story The Nor’Wester was highly commended for The Sargeson Prize.
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