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Michael Morrissey (1)

Auteur van The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories

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Werken van Michael Morrissey

The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000) 21 exemplaren
Paradise to Come (1997) 5 exemplaren
Tropic of Skorpeo (2012) 3 exemplaren
Heart of the Volcano (2000) 2 exemplaren
The new fiction (1985) 1 exemplaar
Octavio's last invention (1991) 1 exemplaar
She's not the child of Sylvia Plath : poems (1981) 1 exemplaar
The Fat Lady and the Astronomer (1981) 1 exemplaar
New Zealand - What Went Wrong? (1988) 1 exemplaar
A case of briefs (1989) 1 exemplaar
Closer to the bone : poems (1981) 1 exemplaar
Poems from Hotel Middlemore (2018) 1 exemplaar
NZ's Top 10 (1993) 1 exemplaar
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male
Nationaliteit
New Zealand
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Canterbury University

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Tropic of Skorpeo
I inhaled this book like a big bag of Smartfood. Sort of a 21st century HItchhikers' Guide, but without the grounding in reality of an Arthur Dent, this is a glorious parody of ray-gun scifi, while actually being very amusing ray-gun scifi itself.

Underneath the ridiculous aliens, deus ex machinae and gratuitous tentacle sex, though, is a cogent examination of the role of war in fiction and myth. By taking the Shakespearean tropes of bitter rivals, star-crossed lovers and sneaky disguises and reducing them to the absurd, Morrissey both pays homage to and subverts these classic English literature concepts.

Or maybe I'm just trying to justify eating popcorn for dinner.… (meer)
 
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Werken
13
Ook door
1
Leden
40
Populariteit
#370,100
Waardering
½ 3.4
Besprekingen
2
ISBNs
21