An Hour With Gail Jones
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When:
| Fri 13 May ’11, 4:00pm–5:00pm |
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Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Festival Club: $16.00
- Early Bird: $20.00
- Standard: $25.00
- Student : $12.50
- Booking fees may apply
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Gail Jones is one of Australia's most gifted and respected writers, renowned for her intensely poetic prose, and critically acclaimed for her short stories and five novels - Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry and most recently, Five Bells.
The latter opens at Circular Quay with an exultant description of Sydney harbour, which is where we meet the four main characters, all “immigrants” of a sort. The novel is, unusually for Jones, character-driven – her work owes as much to cinema as literature: “I do still tend to start with an image, not a character”. A complex and powerfully descriptive novel, it explores the impact of unresolved grief on memory and the fluidity of time, the redemptive power of reading, identity, and Australia’s place in Asia.
She talks with writer and festival founder Stephanie Johnson.
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