Oracles and Miracles

Name: Oracles and Miracles
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ISBN: 9780140099270

ISBN-10: 0140099271

ISBN-13: 9780140099270

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stevan Eldred-Grigg

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A BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL 'FICTION' NOVEL ABOUT TWO WORKING CLASS SISTERS GROWING UP IN CHRISTCHURCH IN THE 1930S AND 1940S. FAG AND GINNIE LOOK AT THEIR LIVES, DESCRIBING THEIR FAMILY LIFE, THEIR SCHOOLING, THEIR FANTASIES (A STRONG ELEMENT IN THE BOOK IS ITS EVOCATION OF THE POPULAR WORKING CLASS CULTURE OF THE TIME). FAG AND GINNIE ARE IN FACT THE AUTHOR'S OWN MOTHER AND SISTER, ALTHOUGH THIS IS NOT REVEALED IN THE BOOK ELDRED-GRIGG HAS TAKEN THE RESULTS OF MANY HOURS OF DISCUSSION AND TURNED IT INTO A RICH, FASCINATING, SUPERBLY EXECUTED NOVEL, IN WHICH THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS COME ALIVE AND THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO THE WORLD OF 1930 AND 1940. ORACLES AND MIRACLES IS THE FIRST NOVEL OF…

Book details

List price: $6.95
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 6/7/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.00" wide x 5.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

New Zealand writer Stevan Eldred-Grigg was born in 1952. He has written a number of controversial novels, including Blue Blood, which depicts a national hero as a lesbian. His novel, Oracles and Miracles, received second prize in the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards (1988). In addition to novels, Eldred-Grigg has written short stories and nonfiction.