Bug Week - by Airini Beautrais (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A science educator in domestic chaos, fetishises, Scandinavian furniture, and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. <i>Bug Week</i> is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, <i> Bug Week </i>traverses the weird, the wry, and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'The collection focuses on relationships in a wry, somewhat cynical manner that provides both recognition and humour for the reader, and the author's talent as a poet is also in evidence in some impressive passages. . . . Stories of this quality are a pleasure to read and I look forward to more from this talented, often acerbic, writer.' --Owen Marshall, <i>Newsroom</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Airini Beautrais </b>was born in Auckland in 1982. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies in Aotearoa and elsewhere. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently <i>Flow: Whanganui River Poems</i> (VUP, 2017). Her first collection, <i>Secret Heart </i>(VUP, 2006), won the Jessie Mackay Award for First Book of Poetry at the 2007 NZ Book Awards. In 2016 she won the Landfall Essay Prize. She has also been a judge for a number of awards, including the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards. She lives in Whanganui with her two sons and two cats.
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