Pet: Stories
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Pet: Stories
By (Author) Kathryn van Beek
Illustrated by Kathryn van Beek
Mary Egan Publishing
Mary Egan Publishing
18th August 2020
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Physical Properties
Paperback
168
Width 146mm, Height 201mm, Spine 13mm
Description
PET Noun: A tamed animal kept for companionship or pleasure; A person treated with special favour. Verb: Stroke or pat; Engage in erotic touching. Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. In these 18 stories we meet a girl in a standoff with the neighbourhood goose killer, a druggy who turns possums into pop culture icons, and an emotional support animal gone wild.
Reviews
These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sharp, taut, brilliantly written exposs of our untamed behaviour to each other. Kathryns writing is intense and merciless but totally entertaining and gripping from start to finish. Stuart Hoar (author of The Hard Light)
Author Bio
Kathryn van Beek is one of the most intriguing voices in contemporary New Zealand literature. A graduate of Victoria Universitys Institute of Modern Letters, Kathryn is the winner of the Mindfood Short Story Competition and the Headland Short Story Prize. She is also the momager of Aotearoas third most famous cat. Stories from Pet have been, or will be, published in The Sunday Star-Times, Takah, Headland, Bonsai, Newsroom, The Valley Review, Geometry and Fresh Ink. The story The NorWester was highly commended for The Sargeson Prize.
