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2000s: Sometimes death puts life on hold
Carnival Sky
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Sheff is disillusioned with journalism and, with plans to travel overseas, chucks in his job. But first he goes south to Alexandra, where his father is dying. He becomes caught up with his family in the agonising inertia of waiting for approaching death. Slowly he comes to terms with suppressed issues of loss, love, resentment and commitment, and acknowledges he must reach out for new relationships. Sheff’s gradual transformation – sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes disconcerting – is handled with insight and subtlety and is totally convincing.
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Otago region
Although set in the Otago region, there is not so much a sense of place as a desolate look at the landscape of grief in it many forms. His father lives in Alexandra, a small town which is known as the “hottest, driest and coldest town in New Zealand” so somewhere where three extremes meet and where a man grieves at the changes in his life.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Carnival Sky
Author/Guide Owen Marshall Destination: Otago Region Departure Time: 2000s
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