Too Glorious to Even Long for on Certain Days
£14.95
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrators playfully set out across the Tasman, literally on a high wire. Macleod’s striking drawings explore notions of home, and depict homeward thoughts and dreams. High Wire also enters a metaphysical place where art is made, a place where any ambitious art-making enterprise requires its participants to hold their nerve and not look down. It’s a beautifully considered small book which richly rewards the reader and stretches the notion of what the book can do.
Lloyd Jones is the author of twelve novels. Mister Pip was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and Hand Me Down World was shortlisted for the Berlin International Literary Prize. He has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature, is an Arts Foundation Laureate and the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Literature from Victoria University. His writing has been translated into many languages.
- ISBN-13
- 9780995123083
- Publisher
- Massey University Press
- Imprint
- Massey University Press
- Publication date
- 14 May 2020
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 304
- Dimensions
- 250 x 190 mm
- Illustrations
- Fully illustrated
- Language
- English
