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Shot

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In the time it takes a bullet to travel through her left ear and into the back wall of the Ellis Street donut store, Lena – star of the stand-up comedy circuit – has a revelation. Mainly that she has never found comedy particularly funny…
Meet Lena Domanski, daughter of Polish immigrants, professional funny woman. Her brother spends his days in a deserted hangar, building satellites out of scrap metal. Her sister is a startling beauty of six foot two who stuffs dead animals for a living. Her father has founded a restaurant chain serving the cuisine of a country he despises. Her mother is making a small fortune out of peddling false eyelashes. But what about Lena?
Lena Domanski is leaving it all behind. Trading punchlines for snapshots, she makes for Alaska – where she meets a mysterious tracker and a speechless child, and discovers that loss can sometimes be gain.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Sarah
Quigley

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sarah Quigley is a novelist, critic, and columnist. She has a D.Phil. in Literature from the University of Oxford, and is a graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative writing course. In 1998, she won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Her short stories and poetry have been widely broadcast and published, and her fiction has won many prizes, including the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Pacific Rim Short Story Award. Previous publications include three novels, a collection of short fiction, a creative writing manual, and two poetry collections. Her second novel Shot was long-listed for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and her third novel Fifty Days saw her featured in Waterstones UK 20 Faces of the Future. In 2000 she won the inaugural Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency. Since then she has divided her time between New Zealand and Berlin. She writes a weekly column for The Press, and also works as a freelance editor for a number of UK and German publishers.

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sarah Quigley is a novelist, critic, and columnist. She has a D.Phil. in Literature from the University of Oxford, and is a graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative writing course. In 1998, she won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Her short stories and poetry have been widely broadcast and published, and her fiction has won many prizes, including the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Pacific Rim Short Story Award. Previous publications include three novels, a collection of short fiction, a creative writing manual, and two poetry collections. Her second novel Shot was long-listed for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and her third novel Fifty Days saw her featured in Waterstones UK 20 Faces of the Future. In 2000 she won the inaugural Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency. Since then she has divided her time between New Zealand and Berlin. She writes a weekly column for The Press, and also works as a freelance editor for a number of UK and German publishers.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
New Zealand
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Virago Press

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