The Beaded Curtain
$31.19
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2025
Summary
Part autobiography, part memoir, part quest, lauded writer Lloyd Jones’s The Beaded Curtain is a trenchant exploration of the artist as witness.
The text gets about from Jones’s Lower Hutt childhood and youthful wanderings across the USA to formative experiences such as seeing clothes from Hiroshima and his encounters with the Jewish Memorial in Berlin. From the hills of the Wairarapa to Hiroshima and Waiheke Island, he looks at examples of mavericks, in his own family and in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781991309402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1991309406 |
| Author: | Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: | Massey University Press |
| Imprint: | Massey University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 138mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
A beaded curtain shifts and clatters in the doorway of Lloyd Jones’s mind, filtering early life, explorations, hauntings, and the terrible violences – domestic and global – that we too quickly turn from. This compelling narrative testifies to a writer’s vital work: paying attention, and asking that we do the same.
–Kate De GoldiLloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand-based writer. He has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature, is an arts laureate of New Zealand, and is a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Victoria University. His writing has been translated into many languages. His novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and his novel Hand Me Down World was shortlisted for the Berlin International Literary Prize.
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