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Imago

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Francesca Rendle-Short

Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. The young couple was on their way to Australia. When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she’s looking for an escape from home. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seduction and transformations. The threading together of skins, of bodies. It’s a story of metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation. Possibilities of death.

1996 | ISBN 9781875559367 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 230 pp

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Francesca Rendle-Short

Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. The young couple was on their way to Australia. When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she’s looking for an escape from home. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seduction and transformations. The threading together of skins, of bodies. It’s a story of metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation. Possibilities of death.

1996 | ISBN 9781875559367 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 230 pp

Francesca Rendle-Short

Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. The young couple was on their way to Australia. When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she’s looking for an escape from home. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seduction and transformations. The threading together of skins, of bodies. It’s a story of metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation. Possibilities of death.

1996 | ISBN 9781875559367 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 230 pp


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Awards

1997 ACT Book of the Year Award

Reviews

'This is a tender, delicate story of uneasy relationships sharpened by geographical and cultural disjunction, and the careful sifting of hitherto core beliefs to survive.' 

–Otago Daily Times, New Zealand, 1996

‘Imago is a great restless read, punchy and quirky and indescribably tender.’

–Diva, UK

'The transferences of female imagery to the landscape (a tremendously difficult device to use newly) are among the best I've read. The fluctuations and magnitudes of individual interpersonal electricity are also conveyed with great respect and art.' 

–Jennifer Maiden, Overland, 1997


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