Stonefish (hardcover). by Keri Hulme

Stonefish hardcover by Keri Hulme "Everything changes everything flows nothing is exactly what it seems." A stonefish is at once a venomous fish and in Mori narrative pounamu greenstone jade which swam the West Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand's South Island in the form of a fish Stonefish by Booker Prize winner Keri Hulme is a collection of stunning depth and playful breadth It's comic sardonic capricious and strange and it takes us on some wild journeys through elemental environments the almost-possible and the barely imaginable Here there is wonder in a midden a miracle in a child's mudpie hell itself These pages are populated by a centaur-like tarantula a rude doppelganger creatures from the mythic past children masked and prophetic and forebears whose deeds live on in family stories and dreams If we cast our lines out if we dig and if we dream who knows what we'll find. Fiction ISBN 1869691067 Dimensions 130 x 205 mm Pages 240 Format hardcover Language English Publication Date Sep 20...