Pip Adam
Auteur de The new animals
A propos de l'auteur
Pip Adam is a New Zealand author of the book, The New Animals, which won the Acorn Foundation Literary Prize in 2018. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 she received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award and her first afficher plus book Everything We Hoped For won the New Zealand Post Best First Book award in 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Pip Adam
The Kiss 1 exemplaire
The Woman, the Girl 1 exemplaire
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She is also one of the most exciting contemporary authors there is.
I've just been re-reading my review of the first of her books that I've read. It's called The New Animals (2017), and in the light of her preoccupations in Audition, this paragraph about Doug, a pit-bull terrier used for a photo-shoot, is prescient:
Audition is about how the justice system fails both the people who are incarcerated and the people outside who want to feel safe. In the press release from Giramondo, the author note says that it's an argument for the abolition of prisons and our present punishment-based justice system. Pip Adam explains more about it in this article at Stuff.
It is years since I did HSC Legal Studies and learned about the four purposes of the justice system: protection for society; deterrence; rehabilitation; and reparation, and how only the first of these purposes is effective — and that's only for as long as the perpetrator is locked up. Times have changed since then, and now there are said to be more 'purposes', with retribution given high priority. (The Australian Law Reform Commission has a useful summary here,) But still, we know from research that criminals come out of gaol cleverer at crime than they were; that 'deterrence' has no effect on crimes of passion or loss of impulse control; that what passes for rehabilitation programs doesn't prevent recidivism; and that no conceivable reparation can make up for the most heinous of crimes. We know that 'getting tough on crime' doesn't reduce crime. None of these realities affect the Law-and-Order auctions that are a feature of state elections.
But you know, when you've been a victim of violent crime, it can be a struggle to remember the research and be reasonable. Sometimes it's a moral struggle and sometimes, you simply feel a visceral response.
Plus, we know that there are some people who really are an ongoing danger to society...
So Audition made me feel ambivalent about its preoccupations even before I started reading it.
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In the Stuff interview, Pip Adam gave this response to a question about how she pitched the book:
Yes, Audition begins with three giants who are squeezed into a spacecraft. They have to keep talking to keep the spacecraft moving, and silence makes them increase in size, a danger to themselves and each other. The effect was so powerful I had to conquer my claustrophobia to read it. Seriously. Confined spaces, even fictional ones, give me vivid nightmares.
Truth be told, though I do understand why Audition was written as a space opera, I did not really get on with the spacecraft elements. But Audition is a brilliant book all the same. It's what the giants talk about that makes it a brilliant book.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/07/16/audition-2023-by-pip-adam/… (plus d'informations)