Ashleigh Young
Forfatter af Can You Tolerate This?
Om forfatteren
Ashleigh Young is a poet and editor at Victoria University Press and teaches creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her books include Can You Tolerate This?, awarded a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, as well as a critically vis mere acclaimed book of poetry, Magnificent Moon. vis mindre
Værker af Ashleigh Young
The Te Kūiti Underground 1 eksemplar
Hero vegetable 1 eksemplar
Project blog 1 eksemplar
Extraordinary anywhere : essays on place from Aotearoa New Zealand (2016) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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The ‘Big Red’ of the essay’s title refers to a jacket worn by her brother JP. His name is really John-Paul, but in small-town New Zealand he gets razzed about that:
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Despite his father’s exhortations that ‘You gotta have money coming in’, JP is a songwriter, getting by with a series of meaningless jobs. While her father is immobilised in their town by inertia, refusing to move even when his wife takes a job elsewhere, the boys eventually take off to see the world, leaving Ashleigh behind. Older brother Neil eventually goes to London where he spent his days typing and nights furtively drinking champagne and red wine at hospitality functions he worked as a waiter. For Ashleigh, yearning to be somewhere more significant, Neil’s emails are a revelation.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/11/12/big-red-from-can-you-tolerate-this-by-ashlei...… (mere)