'With precise and beautiful prose, the short stories in Jennifer Down's Pulse Points carry an emotional clarity and intensity that is truly impressive.' Books+Publishing
The characters in Jennifer Down's
Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors and perpetrators.
In the award-winning 'Aokigahara', a young woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye. In 'Coarsegold', a woman conducts an illicit affair while her recovering girlfriend works the overnight motel shift in the middle of nowhere. In 'Dogs', Foggo runs an unruly gang of bored, cruel boys with a scent for fresh meat. In 'Pressure Okay' a middle-aged man goes to the theatre, gets a massage, remembers his departed wife, navigates the long game of grief with his adult daughter.
Jennifer Down, whose first novel, Our Magic Hour, was commended in the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, is a masterful stylist whose sharp eye has been compared to that of Helen Garner. Pulse Points is a gutting collection that showcases her singular voice, and reminds us once more that this is a writer of great talent.Jennifer Down was born in 1990. Our Magic Hour was highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday Paper, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Lifted Brow, Best Australian Stories and Blue Mesa Review. She is one ofSydney Morning Herald's Young Novelists of the Year, 2017.
www.jenniferdown.com
'A haunting and evocative collection of stories about quietly courageous characters facing loss in its many forms.' Abigail Ulman
'Pulse Points exceeds all expectations... [it] has the precise, arresting prose and depth of feeling of Our Magic Hour, but the short story form magnifies Down's skill... There are no weak moments here... A human pulse runs through this collection; these stories live and breathe, and as a result Pulse Points is powerful and deeply affecting.' Readings
'Down's evocation of Audrey's grief is astute, perceptive and always convincing... It's compelling writing.' Australian on Our Magic Hour
'An emotionally sophisticated and impressive novel.' Australian Book Review on Our Magic Hour
'All the rapture and calamity of youth. Jennifer Down is a writer of rare insight and heart.' Carrie Tiffany
Genre: Literary Fiction
The characters in Jennifer Down's
Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors and perpetrators.
In the award-winning 'Aokigahara', a young woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye. In 'Coarsegold', a woman conducts an illicit affair while her recovering girlfriend works the overnight motel shift in the middle of nowhere. In 'Dogs', Foggo runs an unruly gang of bored, cruel boys with a scent for fresh meat. In 'Pressure Okay' a middle-aged man goes to the theatre, gets a massage, remembers his departed wife, navigates the long game of grief with his adult daughter.
Jennifer Down, whose first novel, Our Magic Hour, was commended in the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, is a masterful stylist whose sharp eye has been compared to that of Helen Garner. Pulse Points is a gutting collection that showcases her singular voice, and reminds us once more that this is a writer of great talent.Jennifer Down was born in 1990. Our Magic Hour was highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday Paper, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Lifted Brow, Best Australian Stories and Blue Mesa Review. She is one ofSydney Morning Herald's Young Novelists of the Year, 2017.
www.jenniferdown.com
'A haunting and evocative collection of stories about quietly courageous characters facing loss in its many forms.' Abigail Ulman
'Pulse Points exceeds all expectations... [it] has the precise, arresting prose and depth of feeling of Our Magic Hour, but the short story form magnifies Down's skill... There are no weak moments here... A human pulse runs through this collection; these stories live and breathe, and as a result Pulse Points is powerful and deeply affecting.' Readings
'Down's evocation of Audrey's grief is astute, perceptive and always convincing... It's compelling writing.' Australian on Our Magic Hour
'An emotionally sophisticated and impressive novel.' Australian Book Review on Our Magic Hour
'All the rapture and calamity of youth. Jennifer Down is a writer of rare insight and heart.' Carrie Tiffany
Genre: Literary Fiction
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