This collection of short stories includes innovative tales of an aspiring politician, an encounter in the film festival toilets, being stranded in the Fiji airport by George Speight’s coup, and a lonely farmer who buys armor on the Internet and jousts in Palmerston North. These stories make an immediate impression with their vigorous, often outrageous humor and with their firm grounding in New Zealand’s country towns and suburbs. But their darker subtexts soon become apparent, as does a passionate engagement with social and political issues.
- ISBN13 9780864734402
- Publish Date 30 April 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 31 October 2008
- Publish Country NZ
- Imprint Victoria University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 262
- Language English