About the author:
Commonwealth Award Winner in 1992 for her novel The Word Burners, Beryl Fletcher's scope and her ability to unwind a tale are truly brought to life in this, her third novel. Her second novel, The Iron Mouth, is also published by Spinifex, as well as her latest, The Bloodwood Clan. In 1994, she was chosen to represent New Zealand at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. In 1999, she was appointed as Writer in Residence at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Now sixty, Beryl believes that women who matured Before Feminism have important stories to tell. In Cyberfiction, she tells how this story, The Silicon Tongue, came to be written.
Alice is seventy. Abandoned in England at the age of seven, Alice is sent to New Zealand as a servant with a shipload of other girls. She is tricked by the authorities into believing that she is an orphan. Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption.
She discovers a kinship with teenage nethead, Pixel, and learns that old women can fly in cyberspace along with the young. Meanwhile, Alice's daughter Joy, finds out that when it comes to family stories there is always more than one version of the truth.
Also...
Read the abstracts from thePolitics of Cyberfeminism Conference at which Beryl Fletcher and other Spinifex authors Renate Klein, Dale Spender, Rye Senjen, Jane Guthrey, Susan Hawthorne and Suniti Namjoshi were speakers, on Saturday 21 September 1996 at Deakin University.
Silicon Tongue is translated in Korean and German
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1875559493 May 96 fiction 288pp 198x128
Territory: World
All rights: Spinifex
Korea:
Germany: Verlagsgruppe Random House
btb -Verlag
Talking Book: Louis Braille
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