3 books by Craig Cliff
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Overview: ‘Craig Cliff’s first collection of stories heralds the arrival of an electrifying new voice on the New Zealand writing scene. These stories are perfectly formed, standalone gems, but the collection also brings together satisfying harmonies as a whole.’ — New Zealand Herald
Craig Cliff was born in Palmerston North in 1983. Since then he has accumulated three university degrees, experienced office life in Australia and Scotland, swum in piranha-infested waters, slept at 4,200 metres above sea level, tried to write a million words in one year, and learnt there’s not much to do in Liechtenstein. His short stories have been published in New Zealand and Australia; one of them being selected for Essential New Zealand Short Stories edited by Owen Marshall. His first book, A Man Melting, won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book.
Genre: General Fiction | Short Stories > New Zealand
A Man Melting: Short Stories:
A startlingly original collection of short stories that was winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. A son worries he is becoming too perfect a copy of his father. The co-owner of a weight-loss camp for teens finds himself running the black market in chocolate bars. A man starts melting and nothing can stop it, not even poetry. This terrific collection of stories by an exciting new talent moves from the serious and realistic to the humorous and outlandish, each story copying an element from the previous piece in a kind of evolutionary chain. Amid pigeons with a taste for cigarette ash, a rash of moa sightings, and the identity crisis of an imaginary friend, the characters in these eighteen entertaining stories look for ways to reconnect with people and the world around them, even if that means befriending a robber wielding an iguana.
The Mannequin Makers:
From the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize —Best First Book, this strikingly original novel is about rivalry, identity, creativity and love, with an unexpected twist to the classical struggle between life and art. In the early 1900s, the two main stores in Marumaru South were in continual competition with one another, no more so than in their window displays. And for many years, despite his struggles to carve convincing mannequins, Colton Kemp came up with lively, original designs with the help of his devoted wife. But when his wife dies and a newcomer arrives in town, Colton looks elsewhere for inspiration. How else to produce life-like models than to turn to life itself . . . A quirky novel bristling with such diverse elements as shipwreck, carving, a deserted island, twins, a dwarf, body-building, violence and love.
Facing Galapagos:
It’s not every day you receive an email at work from someone claiming to be ‘the’ Charles Darwin. But when David Leon emails back, little does he suspect that before long he would be heading to Ecuador, or indeed that he would be mugged by a man wielding an iguana like a sawn-off shotgun. But what has David really gone in search of? This wry, whimsical story is refreshingly different and thought-provoking.
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