Vanishing Point - Softcover

Kroll, Jeri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1922186589 ISBN 13: 9781922186584

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann, 2014

Synopsis

Vanishing Point is a crossover verse novel that poses the question of how individuals can learn to be comfortable in their own bodies. Nineteen-year-old Diana Warren suffers from anorexia and bulimia. She faces a challenging situation at home with dysfunctional parents and a Down-syndrome brother, which causes her to seek refuge in female role models in the mythic past. An Irish racehorse trainer who reignites her childhood love of horses causes her to question everything. Will she choose life or death? And what happens when that choice is taken out of her hands? 'This crossover poetry novel is written convincingly in the voice of a teenage girl with anorexia. As a narrative, it is page-turning, as a series of cameos and incidents it has a touching lyrical intimacy.' - Jan Owen 'Kroll experiments at the nexus of lyric and narrative, cumulatively taking a story forward while also offering the reader associative insight into the complex emotional life of a young woman.' - Rose Lucas, Australian Book Review

About this title

About the Author

Professor Jeri Kroll is currently Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University. She established the Creative Writing Program and has published over 20 books for adults and young people. Past President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is on the boards of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. Recent books include Swamp Soup (2012, for children) and Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (2013). Among over 40 scholarly works, most recent are the co-edited Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and Creative Writing and Education in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Creative Writing. A staged reading of her verse novel, Vanishing Point, took place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Page to Stage Festival (2011)

Edition details

• Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922186589
• ISBN 13: 9781922186584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284