
The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories
Kobus Moolman(Author)
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-86914-362-6 (ISBN)
Description
This story collection by multiple award-winning poet, author and playwright Kobus Moolman is a volume of unconventional potency. Written in a range of styles, voices and genres, each of the ten stories offers original insights into the difficulties of staying afloat. Whether the challenge is being differently abled (with all the outsider isolation this brings); lower-income family life under unbending patriarchal rule; or being born a female child in an abusive, gendered culture, the narratives are convincing (often humorous) in their portrayal of trapped lives striving for transcendence.
The darkly funny Kiss and the Brigadier invokes the stultifying boredom of small-town life and the captured mentalities of its understimulated citizens; Extracts from a Dispensable Life offers a creative and sensitive reading of the gender violence theme; while the irreverent but never disrespectful Angel Heart ventures into the risky waters of religious send-up.
The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories is a collection that stands out for its unusual perspectives; its frank, often uncomfortable treatment of taboo topics; its creative risk-taking; and its skilful and observant recreation of worlds gone by, which still leave their aftershocks.
The darkly funny Kiss and the Brigadier invokes the stultifying boredom of small-town life and the captured mentalities of its understimulated citizens; Extracts from a Dispensable Life offers a creative and sensitive reading of the gender violence theme; while the irreverent but never disrespectful Angel Heart ventures into the risky waters of religious send-up.
The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories is a collection that stands out for its unusual perspectives; its frank, often uncomfortable treatment of taboo topics; its creative risk-taking; and its skilful and observant recreation of worlds gone by, which still leave their aftershocks.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
157 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86914-362-6 (9781869143626)
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Person
Kobus Moolman is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Western Cape. He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and has presented his work at literary festivals in South Africa, Ireland and Canada.