A bookshop
in many parts
SHOP PART I
ABOUT
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Blue Flower Texts
can be found at
Natural Hand in
Lyttelton
10 Oxford St
T 4pm-7pm
F 9am-7pm
S 9am-4pm
A bookshop in
many parts
SHOP PART I
ABOUT
SHIPPING
CONTACT
Blue Flower Texts
can be found at
Natural Hand in
Lyttelton
10 Oxford St
T 4pm-7pm
F 9am-7pm
S 9am-4pm
PRETTY UGLY
KIRSTY GUNN
$40.00
Rough Trade Books
218 pages, paperback
9781914236419
The title of this book, a collection of short stories by Kirsty Gunn, really says it all. In every story, the pastiche falls apart, the darkness inside a person or thing betrayed by one's own thoughts. There's a cool lack of events in the stories, but this is what makes them all the more unsettling, a meditation on the gap between thought and action, a gap that waxes and wanes, and it is this oscillation that reminds us how much closer we often are to something terrible than not. Pretty Ugly excavates the question, how do we live in a world so cruel? and that this is the only question worth asking because it has the capacity to take us somewhere else. The Rough Trade cover is appropriately both lush and hostile and so happy I can offer this version to you. Pretty Ugly folds into itself, a russian doll book; the final story behaves as a pretend review, like a predator anticipating the next move of its prey.
KIRSTY GUNN
$40.00
Rough Trade Books
218 pages, paperback
9781914236419
The title of this book, a collection of short stories by Kirsty Gunn, really says it all. In every story, the pastiche falls apart, the darkness inside a person or thing betrayed by one's own thoughts. There's a cool lack of events in the stories, but this is what makes them all the more unsettling, a meditation on the gap between thought and action, a gap that waxes and wanes, and it is this oscillation that reminds us how much closer we often are to something terrible than not. Pretty Ugly excavates the question, how do we live in a world so cruel? and that this is the only question worth asking because it has the capacity to take us somewhere else. The Rough Trade cover is appropriately both lush and hostile and so happy I can offer this version to you. Pretty Ugly folds into itself, a russian doll book; the final story behaves as a pretend review, like a predator anticipating the next move of its prey.
