Review (PDF) Cloudless: A Novel In Verse
It's a still, hot summer in Perth, Australia. The heat is shimmering off the city's glass buildings, with not much to do but surrender to the cool of Beatty Park's swimming pool. However, something is moving amid all the stillness - a hidden snake sliding through shadows. It's moving through lives and connecting them with its sonar trembles: Auntie, in town with Jerome to find the kid's runaway mum; Kevin, tired of his bus route, dealing with raucous kids and bottlenecks and a city that seems to be growing hostile; Karri and his other-worldly sister Bat Girl; Jackie and her sisters, sharing smokes by the pool. In this exquisite, lyrical verse novel by acclaimed playwright Christine Evans, readers will witness the strange and invisible ways people are drawn together and pulled apart - and to venture to the catastrophic release that might ultimately return them home. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Poetry, Literature]
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: UWA Publishing (October 20, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1742587569
ISBN-13: 978-1742587561
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This is a startlingly beautiful journey. Read it. I am buying copies for all my friends as stocking stuffers this winter. Looking forward to reading whatever she writes next. Hard to believe that this is her first work of non-theatrical fiction.
LOVED "CLOUDLESS" - Imaginative and beautifully constructed, yet flowing - rides on its own music. Metaphors to stop your heart and similes which catch your breath. After becoming accustomed to the format - in about 2 pages - I forgot the "verse" aspect, as the imagery and plot are so well interlaced that it felt like the story was guiding my breath. Powerful social meanings, elegantly developed.
This beautiful verse novel flows delightfully. The magical realism allows easy access into other lives, and the beautifully evocative language took me straight back to my own youthful times at Beatty Park
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