Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The New Animals
A novel about people from different generations working in Auckland's fashion scene. Exhausted Generation X workers and younger figures with money and ideals collide around production and a photo shoot, bringing consumer culture, labor, bodies, and the lack of a clear future sharply into view.
Work Information
Set in the fashion world, the novel searches for new forms of life amid the exhaustion of consumption and work.
Pip Adam's The New Animals, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, is a New Zealand novel centered on the fashion scene. Through Carla, Sharon, and Duey, who have long worked in the industry, and Tommy, Cal, and Kurt, who arrive with money and a new sensibility, the book examines generation, labor, bodies, and ecological unease. From the streets and workspaces of contemporary Auckland, it searches for another way of existing amid the wreckage of the twenty-first century.
Review Summaries
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The claustrophobic portrait of city and workplace in the first part and the bold turn later in the book provoke strong responses. Some readers see the structural shift as ambitious, while others experience it as a rupture.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Victoria Univ Pr
- Published
- 2018-01-01
- Pages
- 223 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.34 x 1.78 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781776561162
- ISBN-10
- 1776561163
- Price
- 5056 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember. For them, there’s nothing new under the sun. They’re Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. They’ve come from nowhere, but with their monied families behind them they’re ready to remake fashion. They represent the new sincere, the anti-irony. Both generations are searching for a way out, an alternative to their messed-up reality.
Pip Adam has published a collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For (VUP, 2010) and two novels, I’m Working on a Building (VUP, 2013) and The New Animals (VUP, 2017). Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 Pip received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award and her first book Everything We Hoped For won the NZ Post Best First Book award in 2011.