by Geoff Palmer
... an absolutely splendid and entertaining book. It's full of great gags and descriptions, and handles the difficult structure ... with a bubbly, tumbling assurance.
– Kevin Ireland, Quote Unquote
When alter-ego Eric lets loose it is laugh-a-minute stuff. Concise, witty, a bit close to the bone – but definitely funny.
– Miles Moodie, Waikato Times
Clever and unpredictable ... stimulating and entertaining.
– Owen Marshall, judge of the 1995 North & South / Reed Fiction Award
... stiletto-sharp ... an accomplished debut novel.
– Graeme Lay, North & South
... deceptively casual, casually deceitful ...
Satirical, eccentric, compassionate, Telling Stories is a delight. It'll stand a second reading to get the full complexity, the cross-referencing and allusions, the elegant recklessness.
– Ronda Cooper, Metro
... carefully constructed, consistently comical ...
– Bede Scott, Sunday Star Times
... cunningly plotted ... fiendishly twisted ...
– David Eggleton, Listener
... witty, irreverent, satirical, outrageous ...
– Ian Dixon, Christchurch Press
I found Geoff Palmer an exciting new voice in our literature and hope he has more stories to tell of equal challenge to the imagination.
– Howard Warner, New Zealand Books
Geoff Palmer in Telling Stories plays realism off against post-modernism, as inept Steven Spalding is depicted transforming his increasingly dangerous misadventures into stories concerning the confident Eric Dombey, with the two finally becoming inextricably crossed, producing a book that can be read as both an implicit attack on post-modern moral relativism and a post-modern undermining of narrative certainty.
– The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature, edited by Terry Sturm
Also by Geoff Palmer
Telling Stories (a novel)
Payback
The Bluebelle Investigations Series:
Private Viewing
Private Lives
The Forty Million Minutes series:
Too Many Zeros
Lair of the Sentinels
The Man with the Missing Jaw
Non-fiction:
Reasons for NOT Writing & How to Overcome Them
Contents
Pardon ... ?
Monday, March 16
Raid
Sunday, March 29
History
Monday, March 30
Valhalla
Tuesday, March 31
Party
Monday, April 6
Stories
Sunday, April 12
View
Thursday, April 16
Doldrums
Saturday, April 25
Uncles
Monday, May 4
Farce
Tuesday, May 5
Magic
Wednesday, May 6
Cuckoo
Thursday, May 7
Garçon!
Friday, May 8
Homo
Friday, May 15
Speeches
Saturday, May 16
Fridge
Monday, May 18
Fall
Thursday, May 21
Lecture
Thursday, 28 May
Ends
Sunday, 31 May
I
About Geoff Palmer
Praise for Telling Stories
Copyright Information
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Telling Stories
Copyright © 2014 by Geoff Palmer
First published in New Zealand by Secker and Warburg,
an imprint of Reed Publishing (NZ) Limited
This edition is published by Podsnap Publishing Ltd.
ISBN (ePub): 978-0-473-29070-2
also available in print under
ISBN: 978-0-473-33234-1
Cover design copyright © Podsnap Publishing
Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review, no part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity (including Google, Amazon or similar organisations), in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.
This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author's imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
All rights reserved.
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Also by Geoff Palmer
Bluebelle Investigations
Private Viewing
Private Lives
Forty Million Minutes
Too Many Zeros
Lair of the Sentinels
The Man with the Missing Jaw
Standalone
Telling Stories
Payback
Reasons for Not Writing & How to Overcome Them
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