Exploded View

Name: Exploded View
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781922268662
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By Carrie Tiffany

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Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany is a haunting and immersive novel set in Australia during the 1970s. It follows the story of a young girl who obsesses over car mechanics as a means to navigate the instability and risks of her life at home. This introspective tale explores themes of resilience and coping amidst a quietly tension-filled environment.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you appreciate finely crafted narratives that explore complex family dynamics and societal expectations. The story delves into the intricacies of a young girl's life in 1970s rural Australia, offering a unique perspective and an evocative sense of atmosphere and time. Carrie's precise and poetic prose may captivate readers who enjoy immersive and thought-provoking fiction.

A fearless and masterful novel from the Stella Prize-winning author Carrie Tiffany, now in a new paperback edition

Shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. A fearless and masterful novel from the Stella Prize-winning author Carrie Tiffany, now in a new paperback edition

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Must a girl always be a part?

How can she become a whole?

In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.

The family is under threat. The girl reads the Holden workshop manual for guidance. She resists the man with silence, then with sabotage. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives – in the engine of the car.

Spare, poetic and intensely visual, Exploded View is the powerful new novel from the author of Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living and Mateship with Birds – one of Australia’s most celebrated writers and winner of the inaugural Stella Prize.

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Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany has received widespread praise for its poetic and restrained prose. Reviews highlight the novel's subtlety, dense interiority, and lyrical language while capturing the protagonist's tense and dark coming-of-age story. Often described as potent and evocative, it challenges readers in compelling ways, offering a rewarding experience through its careful depiction of nature, relationships, and personal growth.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922268662

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. She spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in Central Australia. Her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (2005), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and won the Dobbie Award and the WA Premier’s Award for Fiction. Mateship with Birds (2011) was also shortlisted for many awards and won the inaugural Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Carrie’s latest novel Exploded View (2019) won the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards. She lives and works in Melbourne.