Bug Week

Author: Airini Beautrais

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  • : $30.00 NZD
  • : 9781776563050
  • : 82249
  • : Victoria University Press
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  • : September 2020
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  • : Airini Beautrais
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  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 184
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Description

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.  

Awards

Winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction - Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021