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When Gravity Snaps

Marshall, Owen

In this new collection of 24 short stories, Owen Marshall, described by Vincent O'Sullivan as "New Zealand's best prose writer", explores the worlds of small-town communities, their loves and losses, their dreams and everyday lives. But Marshall does not simply mine old ground. Here too are smart urban parties, the pettiness of school and university hierarchies, the perspectives of men and women with long lives behind them, the search for human warmth in an often capricious world. Funny, moving, challenging and always exquisitely written, these stories confirm Marshall's reputation, and show him writing at the peak of his powers. Shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2003 Deutz Medal for Fiction.

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