Published 1990 by RSVP Publishing, Auckland

ISBN: 0-9597948-0-8

Soft cover (black textured card cover with white text and back and front images); 152pp

A writer sits in a two-roomed Waiheke Island bach, stripping Oscar Wilde and himself of their personalities. Outside, an actress from Paris passes – an actress with a colourful and cosmopolitan background of Swiss finishing school and Holloway Prison. The love affair between professional recorder and “a bitch in deep freeze” is told in alternating voices and with a chorus of idiosyncratic individuals who add to the plot’s intrigues while sometimes distracting from its direction. It’s a philosophical as well as physical affair: the carefully note-booked thoughts on men, women and the bits in between are often provocative but not often assimilated. Short-listed (and justifiably so) for the Heinemann Reed Fiction Award, this first novel is exact, exacting and dense with energy--New Zealand Listener

For more info see: http://www.rsvp-publishing.co.nz/catalogue/hymm-to-the-moon

Second-hand book in Ex/VG condition. Very light edge wear and minor discoloration/couple of small marks to page edges. Very clean internally

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