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March 25, 2017 | Single Authors Short Stories

By Shonagh Koea

Blackly funny but poignant and multi-levelled, finely crafted and punctiliously enjoyable, this short-story assortment is from a distinct author with an extraordinary and targeted talent.'Reading Shonagh Koea's tales . . . is like sampling a field of excellent, wealthy goodies. learn (or devour) too many immediately and there is a threat of sensual overload; limit your self to 1 or , and also you omit the excitement of indulgence, and the delicate contrast of every offering.'So a reviewer in New Zealand Books summed up what one other known as Shonagh Koea's 'always fashionable and scrupulously crafted' writing. Her brief tales were broadly well-liked for his or her dexterity with language, startingly unique imagery, an excellent feel of irony that slices via any pretence and a depraved, black humour. Shonagh Koea's first brief tales have been released in such magazines because the Listener and Metro, and in 1981 she gained the Air New Zealand brief tale festival. collections undefined: The lady Who by no means Went domestic and different Stories and Fifteen Rubies by way of Candlelight. whereas she is better referred to as a novelist, her brief tales have a large following, because the Nelson night Mail commented: 'Shonagh Koea is as addictive as nicotine or espresso - with, probably, significant withdrawal symptoms.'

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