Man in the Shed

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 320

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  • 9781848544826

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  • 2 mm

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  • 13 mm

    Height
  • 204 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 21 JULY 2011

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    Description

    From the author of Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a collection written with Lloyd Joness trademark precision and imaginative reach. A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A husband enters a world i From the author of Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a collection written with Lloyd Joness trademark precision and imaginative...  Read More

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    Lloyd Jones

    Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a place which has become a frequent setting and subject for his subsequent works of fiction. He studied at Victoria University, and has worked as a journalist and consultant as well as a writer. His recent novels are: Biografi (1993); Choo Woo (1998); Here At The End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002); Paint Your Wife (2004);and Mister Pip (2007). He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Swimming to Australia (1991).

    In 2003, he published a childrens picture book, Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer, and this was followed by Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (2004), a book for 9-14 year olds. He compiled Into the Field of Play: New Zealand Writers on the Theme of Sport (1992), and also wrote Last Saturday (1994), the book of an exhibition about New Zealand Saturdays, with photographs by Bruce Foster. The Book of Fame (2000), is his semi-fictional account of the 1905 All-Black tour, and was adapted for the stage by Carol Nixon in 2003.

    Lloyd Jones won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) and the Kiriyama Prize for his novel, Mister Pip (2007), set in Bougainville in the South Pacific, during the 1990s. He was also shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the same year he undertook a Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency.

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