 Cover Design by Liz Nicholson © Permission to use image should be directed to Spinifex Press. 
1997 ACT Book of the Year Award joint winner |
Imagoby Francesca Rendle-Short
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Cover Design by Liz Nicholson © Permission to use image should be directed to Spinifex Press.
1997 ACT Book of the Year Award joint winner |
Imagoby Francesca Rendle-Short
|
Imago has a lush and economical style that richly evokes Canberra in the 1960s and strongly captures the migrant experience of the period. It also vividly brings to life the emotional complexity of its characters, using strong imagery to contrast with domestic rituals, providing a depth to its characters that stays with the reader.
Judges' Report
Molly Rose Moone dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed off one another in clumps all over the bed. Breast deep. The young couple were on their way to Australia.
When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she's looking for an escape from home, distraction.
Once there she meets Marj.
Fat Marj.
Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seductions and transformations. The threading together of skins, of bodies. It's a story about metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation. Possibilities of death.
Award-winning author, Francesca Rendle-Short, writes with poetic ease, the sensual language rich with metaphor and symbol. Born in Sheffield, England, Francesca Rendle-Short grew up in Queensland. At the University of New England, she studied literature and Organic Chemistry and has since worked as a teacher, radio producer for the ABC and is now writing full-time. She lives in Canberra.
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