The Word Burners
Current price:
$17.95
Publication Date: March 1st, 2002
Publisher:
Spinifex Press
ISBN:
9781876756239
Pages:
320
Description
In this lyrical novel, Beryl Fletcher explores the paradoxes of modern life. As a new academic, Julia finds her beliefs challenged by her students, reinforced by her friend’s mistreatment and dismissed by her family. Just as her mother sought freedom from her family’s rural poverty, Julia and her sister Isobel, search for their own solace finding it in different and disparate places.
Praise for The Word Burners
"Lots of melodrama, sexy scenes, drunken quarrels, deaths, and so on—and it has got all the hooks that make for a good read and make you desperate to know how it's going to end." —Aorewa McLeod, NZ Listener