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A New Zealand author's first novel. Brett Healey is 30 years old and trying to work out just what are the ties and motivations in his life. Travelling to and from his grandfather's funeral, he reflects on his past, finding patterns as he meets again the people who have meant most to him. No library descriptions found. |
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Brett Healey is thirty years old, and looking for clues. Travelling to and from Wellington for his grandfather's funeral, he reflects on his past, finding patterns as he meets again the people who have meant most to him. Healey's high-speed, slightly over-heated mind detects clues to the present in an evocative return to his childhood and adolescence. In three days enough evidence is sifted to open up a new passage inhis life.
This was Damien Wilkins first novel and won him the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Disappointingly this failed to live up to expectations for me. I found the non-sequential memories and changing time frame jarring and confusing. Although Wellington city is clearly evoked. ( )