An Uncertain Grace

Awards:   Long-listed for The Stella Prize 2018 (Australia) Short-listed for Aurealis Awards, Best Science Fiction Novel 2017 (Australia) Short-listed for Norma K Hemming Award 2018 (Australia) Short-listed for The Stella Prize 2018 (Australia)
Author:   Krissy Kneen
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781925355987


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   27 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for The Stella Prize 2018 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Aurealis Awards, Best Science Fiction Novel 2017 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Norma K Hemming Award 2018 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for The Stella Prize 2018 (Australia)

Overview

Some time in the near future, university lecturer Caspar receives a gift from a former student called Liv: a memory stick containing a virtual narrative. Hooked up to a virtual reality bodysuit, he becomes immersed in the experience of their past sexual relationship. But this time it is her experience. What was for him an erotic interlude, resonant with the thrill of seduction, was very different for her—and when he has lived it, he will understand how. Later… A convicted paedophile recruited to Liv’s experiment in collective consciousness discovers a way to escape from his own desolation. A synthetic boy, designed by Liv’s team to ‘love’ men who desire adolescents, begins to question the terms of his existence. L, in transition to a state beyond gender, befriends Liv, in transition to a state beyond age. Liv herself has finally transcended the corporeal—but there is still the problem of love. An Uncertain Grace is a novel in five parts by one of Australia’s most inventive and provocative writers. Moving, thoughtful, sometimes playful, it is about who we are—our best and worst selves, our innermost selves—and who we might become.

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Author:   Krissy Kneen
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.328kg
ISBN:  

9781925355987


ISBN 10:   1925355985
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   27 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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'It's a rare book that seems to drift like smoke away from the printed page to rewrite the physical world...[Kneen] wants us to strip naked and be transformed.' Melbourne Review of Books


'It's a rare book that seems to drift like smoke away from the printed page to rewrite the physical world...[Kneen] wants us to strip naked and be transformed.' Melbourne Review of Books 'Haunting and wonderful.' My Cup and Chaucer


Author Information

Krissy Kneen is the award winning author of the memoir Affection, the novels Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, and the Thomas Shapcott Award winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC television. 

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