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Wuthering Bites Book Club Review at a Glance
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What We Said
This in many ways is a difficult novel to read. The writing style is different, but gets easier to follow with time. The subject matter is painful. The characters are not all sympathetic. But it is a novel that definitely make you feel something. The book is violent; it forces you to look at child abuse in shades of gray, not black and white. It's also beautifully written, a window to a different place. Read it by all means but be forewarned. It's not cozy.
-Sue
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About Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme, a New Zealand native, was born on March 9, 1947 in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1967-68 Keri attended the University of Canterbury. Throughout her career she has worked as a fisher, TV director, cook, and a writer. She was a writer in residence at Otago University in New Zealand in 1978, and in 1985 at the University of Canterbury. Keri Hulme has said that she enjoys fishing, painting, drinking, reading, walking, playing, eating, and people-watching in her spare time (Who's Who 309). She belongs to the New Zealand Literary Fund (advisory committee) and the New Zealand Indecent Publications Tribunal.
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Selected Works by Keri Hulme
- The Silence Between
- The Bone People
- Lost Possessions
- Te Kainau/ The Windeater
- Strands
- Bait
- On Shadowside
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From the Publisher
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor - a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Siman's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.
Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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