Panthers and the Museum of Fire

Jen Craig

ISBN 10: 1557134480 / ISBN 13: 9781557134486

Published by Zerogram Press, 2020

About this Item

First U.S. edition (previously published in Australia in 2015). Like new, with a review from "Rain Taxi" laid in.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1701032414807

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Panthers and the Museum of Fire
• Publisher: Zerogram Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557134480
• ISBN 13: 9781557134486
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Kaiser, Bettina
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

“Jen Craig has the astonishing ability to make us believe she has held every word of the story in her head, then delivered it onto the page in a seamless whole.”
—Deborah Adelaide, novelist

Complex, urgent, and fascinating, this novel about walking, memory, and writing has earned comparisons from Virginia Woolf to Karl Ove Knausgård. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney, Australia café to return a manuscript by a recently deceased writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrator’s entire world: life with family and neighbors, narrow misses with cars, her singular friendships, dinner conversations, and work. We learn of her adolescent desire for maturity and acceptance, and her struggle with religion and anorexia. Photos are provided by Bettina Kaiser.

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Jen Craig’s first novel is Since the Accident (2009). Panthers and the Museum of Fire was long-listed for the 2016 Stella Prize.

About the Authors

Jen Craig’s first novel is Since the Accident (2009). Panthers & The Museum of Fire was long-listed for the 2016 Stella Prize.

Bettina Kaiser is the founder of the design studio BKA+D. She relocated from Germany to Australia in 2000. She has taught at TAFE, and held artist residencies on three expedition cruise ship tours to Antarctica, at Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s Bundanon, and in the outback town of Milparinka.