Loop Tracks (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Upswell Publishing, 2022
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Condition: New
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Paperback. Charlie at 16 is pregnant. Circumstances blow up the normal life awaiting her. Plt;iPgt;Loop TracksPlt;/iPgt; follows simple twists of fate around history and womenP#8217;s lives, in an utterly compelling novel.P#8216;A world full of human damage and human courageP#8217; P#8212;Bill Manhire, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of WellingtonPlt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;ItP#8217;s 1978. Charlie is sixteen and pregnant and the only legal abortion clinic in Auckland has been forced to close. She has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;ItP#8217;s 2019. CharlieP#8217;s quiet life in Wellington with her neurodivergent grandson is shattered by the arrival of his first girlfriend and the father he has never met.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;As the Covid-19 pandemic takes hold and the country goes into lockdown, Charlie must counsel her grandson through his new relationships and confront the choices she made decades earlier.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Told in a dry and playful tone, Loop Tracks is utterly compelling. Ingrid Horrocks says: P#8216;ItP#8217;s about abortion and euthanasia, conspiracy theories and intergenerational guilt, but mainly itP#8217;s about the love between a grandmother and her grown-up grandson.P#8217;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Loop TracksPlt;/iPgt; is a major New Zealand novel, written in real time as the Covid-19 pandemic, New Zealand general election and euthanasia referendum in 2020 unfolded. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9780645076394
- Title
- Loop Tracks (Paperback)
- Author
- Sue Orr
- Publisher
- Upswell Publishing
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0645076392
- ISBN 13
- 9780645076394
Loop Tracks is a major New Zealand novel, written in real time against the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic and the New Zealand General Election and euthanasia referendum.
‘Loop Tracks is an urgent and unexpected novel about freedom and responsibility – about a woman forced to wear her solitary and unsupported choice as a puzzling mistake, and about the very present past that she must face to help her family and herself.’ —Elizabeth Knox
‘This fictional inter-generational story will speak to a wide readership about the choices that are important for our future.’ —Dame Margaret Sparrow
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