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Willow Pattern
by
Nick Earls,
Steven Amsterdam, Krissy Kneen, P.M. Newton (Goodreads Author), Christopher Currie, Rjurik Davidson (Goodreads Author), Angela Slatter (Goodreads Author), Geoff Lemon
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On 11 June 2012, if:book Australia gathered a team of writers and editors together with the challenge of writing, editing, and publishing a book within a single 24-hour period. Working at a furious pace, the team constructed a suite of stories interweaving a looming disaster, radio shock jocks, missing children, a beautiful vase, and a librarian named Sammi Bernhoff.
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Kindle Edition
Published
June 12th 2012
by if:book Australia
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This was an interesting social experiment but is it great literature? No, it is not. It's amazing that a book can be written, edited and published in just 24 hours. It is interesting how the nine authors worked together but this really isn't one voice and the story didn't really flow well from author to author.
Not only is this book a fascinating experiment (from imaginative inception to publication in 24 hours), somehow it manages to be an absolutely brilliant blend of entirely different authorial voices. The writing is, across all the chapters (each penned by a different author within a 12 hour timeframe), of an extremely high quality, and the fragmentary nature of the narrative of the book is of a brilliant strategic and editorial design. The elusive narrative and character development makes for som...more
Frustrating isn't usually the first word to describe a book you liked, but this book is damn frustrating. I'm having to massage my forehead to smooth out the frown lines.
I started off thinking it was meant to be a book; then, oh no, it is just a series of stories where they have had to use the same charcters and incorporate a vase - oh hang on, maybe it is one story.
Some writers seemed to have Charlie found, then she was missing, then .. I don't know. Most of the stories led me to think this was...more
I started off thinking it was meant to be a book; then, oh no, it is just a series of stories where they have had to use the same charcters and incorporate a vase - oh hang on, maybe it is one story.
Some writers seemed to have Charlie found, then she was missing, then .. I don't know. Most of the stories led me to think this was...more
An interesting concept. The variety of authors have built an out of the ordinary little story...not an award winning read, but well worth a lookin. A struggle to stay with the story at times, but what does one expect when each chapter owns a different writer? I rather enjoyed the strong contrast of writing styles linked together...even if a couple of them were way out of my reading comfort zones...
And being there while it was being written was amazing too!
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Nick Earls is the author of twelve books, including bestselling novels such as Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin and World of Chickens. His work has been published internationally in English and also in translation, and this led to him being a finalist in the Premier of Queensland’s Awards for Export Achievement in 1999.
Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and is cur...more
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