I Got His Blood on Me
By (Author) Lawrence Patchett
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
6th January 2012
New Zealand
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.3
Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: Best First Book of Fiction 2013
Paperback
272
Width 137mm, Height 208mm, Spine 25mm
A bloodied figure travels through time, a stepfather kicks a ball and curses a snack machine, a cranky ghost brakes a Kapiti train. From a reimagined history to a future where holograms walk the streets, these stories traverse time and genre to explore the frontiers that face the adventurous - now and in the past.
Lawrence Patchett is an articulate and philosophical author who creates terrific frontier stories. . . . This is a rugged and haunting collection which has remained in my thoughts months after its first reading. Laurence Fearnley, author, The Hut Builder
Lawrence Patchett was a winner of The Long and the Short of It short story competition in 2011. His work has also appeared in Sport, Dominion Post, Booknotes, Hue & Cry and Turbine. Currently completing a PhD in creative writing at Victoria University, he lives in Raumati.