Cowrie
Cowrie travels to Hawaii and as she circles the island in an old pick-up truck we discover the tokens of her heritage. Sensual and sexual language brings the earth to life, and Cowrie too as she tests the limits of her endurance and explores her erotic connection with the earth. Island life erupts through the descriptions and you can taste the tropical fruit, the fish cooked in banana leaves and coconut, and smell the sweet fresh ginger.
1994 | ISBN 9781875559282 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 123 pp
Reviews
‘The realism is magical. The reader is transported fluidly between physical, mythical, political, and emotional landscapes.’
–Australian Women’s Book Review
‘In this gentle, glowing story, dreams and myths are interwoven with sensuous descriptions of food, and the anguish and the celebration of love and sexuality.’
–Australian Book Review
‘This wonderful story will appeal to all lovers of fine women’s fiction.’
–Marlborough Express
‘There is freshness, humour and honesty in the writing it both charms and enlightens.’
–Canberra Times
‘A wonderfully-competent angling and archeologizing lesbian, who needs to know her roots: take an attractive – because accurate – picture of Hawaii … and take dignity and irresolution of all our lives … Cath Dunsford’s first novel (of a series, I hope), is a gentle, determined, insightful and womanful book.’
–Keri Hulme
‘A crucial novel, testing the nature of identity on personal, cultural and global levels.’
–Audre Lorde, (Berlin 1992)