A Second Life

By:

Stephen Wright

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The birch is a quiet tree. It listens. In a tiny book-lined office backing onto a supermarket in a small town in northern New South Wales, a woman named Acker sits smoking a cigarette and listening to the music of Philip Glass. Others come to her with their stories of violence and pain and through her writing she attempts to salvage what they have lost. A Second Life immerses the reader in a world that is both familiar and forbidding. It unfolds with horror and beauty to reveal a complicated and unforgettable portrait of a woman who moves through this world carrying secret histories, different ways of seeing, and many stories. With a narrative voice that is at once eerily beautiful and slightly wild, and a premise that is surreal and ambitious, A Second Life stood out to me immediately. It's an exploration of the self and life and death, all of which comprise the psychological fabric of the main character, who occupies many selves and sometimes none at all.

Author Biography:

Stephen Wright lives in Widjabul country. He has written extensively for Overland and his essays have won the Eureka Street Prize, the Nature Conservancy Prize, the Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize (twice) and the Scarlett Award and have been shortlisted for several others. Stephen works part-time as a manager of a NSW NGO delivering men's behaviour change programs, and also as a counsellor engaged in long-term psychotherapy with women and men who have experienced violence and abuse in childhood. His novella A Second Life won the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2017

Author

Stephen Wright

Collection

Australia

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Country of Publication

Australia

Imprint

Xoum

Pages

210

Publisher

Brio Books

ISBN-13

9781925589047

Product ID

26812025

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