Enter, stage right

By Louise O'Brien In Books

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2nd August, 2008
The Rehearsal is a significant debut novel from an exciting young writer. Eleanor Catton is a new talent who has arrived fully formed, with an accomplished, confident and mature voice. This is a startling novel, striking and strange and brave. After completing an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007, Catton has already won the 2007 Sunday Star-Times short-story competition, and is also the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the 2008 Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary. Her manuscript for The Rehearsal ...

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