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Beautrais, Airini,

Bug week : & other stories / Airini Beautrais. - Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020. - 182 pages ; 21 cm

Short stories.

Bug week -- Living the dream -- A pair of hands -- Psycho ex -- The baddest Toroa in town -- The turtle -- Billy the Pirate Poet -- A summer of scents -- The girl who shaved the moose -- Sin City -- Trashing the flowers -- The teashop -- A quiet death.

"A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy."--Publisher description.

ISBN: 9781776563050 1776563050

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Short stories, New Zealand--21st century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Short stories.

LC Class. No.: PR9642.B439 B84 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 823.3