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Thom Conroy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994140754 ISBN 13: 9780994140753

Publisher: Massey University Press, 2017

Synopsis

A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of 'Home' and commissioned from 21 of New Zealand's best writers. Strong, relevant, topical and pertinent, these essays are also compelling, provocative and affecting, they carry the reader from Dunedin to West Papua, Jamaica to Grey's Avenue, Auckland. In this marvellous collection Selina Tusitala Marsh, Martin Edmond, Ashleigh Young, Lloyd Jones, Laurence Fearnley, Sue Wootton, Elizabeth Knox, Nick Allen, Brian Turner, Tina Makereti, Bonnie Etherington, Paula Morris, Thom Conroy, Jill Sullivan, Sarah Jane Barnett, Ingrid Horrocks, Nidar Gailani, Helen Lehndorf, James George and Ian Wedde show that the art of the essay is alive and well.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Thom Conroy teaches creative writing in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University. He is the author of two novels, The Naturalist (2014) and The Salted Air (2016), both published by Penguin Random House. His short fiction has appeared in journals in New Zealand and abroad, including Landfall, Sport, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Agni. His fiction has been recognised by Best American Short Stories 2012 and has won other awards, including the Katherine Ann Porter Prize in Fiction and the Sunday Star-Times Short Fiction Competition. In 2013 Thom received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Massey University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0994140754
• ISBN 13: 9780994140753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288