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Book review: Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks


Book review: Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
10 Apr, 2021 12:00 AM
3 minutes to read
Ingrid Horrocks new book is a series of musing on strange swimming explorations .
NZ Herald
Victoria University Press, $35
Despite the title and cover photograph there is not a lot of swimming going on in this book.
By the time we have reached the
halfway point, there has been an inadvisable crossing of a polluted river mouth in Taranaki; a splash around in an apartment complex pool in Medellin, Colombia; a nervous slide into a cordoned-off offshoot of the Amazon River; a hotel pool in Phoenix and another, embedded in the basalt cliff face, in the experimental metropolis Arcosanti in the Arizona desert. ....

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Pandemic novel wins top prize for Massey writing lecturer


Dr Laura Jean McKay with her prize-winning novel about a pandemic (photo/Dr Kyra Clarke)
Now teaching creative writing at Massey’s Manawatū campus, Dr McKay is coming to grips with the “life-changing” success of winning the AU$100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, as well as the AU$25,000 Fiction Award, announced in early February.
Her novel, in which a rogue virus gives infected humans the ability to understand animals, was up against shortlisted celebrated writers such as Richard Flanagan. While she defines the book – her first published novel – as “speculative fiction”, aspects of the pandemic theme turned out to be scarily accurate. ....

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