{"product_id":"audition-by-pip-adam-9781776920785","title":"Audition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their incarcerated former selves. Or are they constructing those selves from memory-scripts that have been implanted in them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart science fiction, part social realism, \u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room – and about how we live with each other's violences – and imagines a new kind of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePip Adam\u003c\/em\u003e is one of my favourite authors and \u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e is my new favourite book... A powerful work of social commentary, a bodily exploration and a feat of imagination, all written with Adam's trademark poise: this is the genre-bending book of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is exciting and inventive writing in the hands of an extraordinary writer... Readers may find themselves equal parts unmoored and floored by this thrilling novel. I haven't stopped thinking about it. - \u003ci\u003eDeborah Crabtree, Books+Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStrange and wondrous and disquieting. - \u003ci\u003eSarah Laing, Newsroom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn one level, reading the strange and wonderful \u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e is like listening to a concept album of experimental music that samples the familiar and turns it into the uncanny, where each track builds on the last until finally the listener floats off on an ecstatic bed of epic electonica. Rather than emulating what has gone before, it adds to a cumulative understanding of realms outside our ken, and asks us to critically examine our society – our systems, our prejudice, and our violence – by imagining worlds beyond our own. - \u003ci\u003eRachael King, NZ Listener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e is in the great tradition of \u003cem\u003ePedro Paramo\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ci\u003eJuan Rulfo\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Morel\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ci\u003eAdolfo Bioy Casares\u003c\/i\u003e – brief books that carry the weight of much longer volumes and are at once hallucinogenic, convincingly imagined and demanding your attention. It loses nothing by comparison with its antecedents. - \u003ci\u003ePaul Little, North and South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProfoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as fuck, \u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridors. - \u003ci\u003eCasey Lucas, bad apple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA fine example of Pip Adam's ingenuity and imagination... Adam's world-building is its own precisely constructed and glorious reimagining of our universe. - \u003ci\u003eAngelique Kasmara, Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdam has written not only an excellent book, but one of the most pointedly political acknowledgements that I have ever read. - \u003ci\u003eLaura Borrowdale, Hokitika Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upstart Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46394083049708,"sku":"9781776920785","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781776920785.jpg?v=1745447529","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/audition-by-pip-adam-9781776920785","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}