An Hour with Lloyd Jones

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When:

Sat 16 May ’09, 4:00pm–5:00pm

Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Standard: $19.50
Earlybird pre 13 May: $16.50
Friend pre 13 May: $15.50
Student : $9.75
Booking fees may apply

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Lloyd Jones

Everybody knows Mr Pip, the devastating dissection of a raw postcolonial nerve. It won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Instantly Lloyd Jones' entire writing career appeared subsumed by this one brilliant literary stroke auto-da-fé. Yet behind this lay a lifetime’s carefully nuanced writing, a crafty assessment of the citadel of fiction, a nicety of language and a sense of calm control. There’s adventure there too, moving from Biografi into the strange world of The Book of Fame, to the dangerous territory of an adult contemplating sex with a minor. There is a sense of excitement as to what Jones will write next - he has set no pattern apart from his own sense of invention. Celebrate a contemporary master of prose fiction and a gallant defender of the essay. Chair: Finlay Macdonald.