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2000s: Welcome to the seedier side of New Zealand life
Spitshine
What you need to know before your trail
The third collection from New Zealand writer Michael Botur brings together published and unpublished short stories of braggadocio, ambition, cunning, sorrow, passion and deceit. Botur’s characters rearrange their worlds in the pursuit of real estate, abdominal muscles, sexual satisfaction – and always money.
Travel Guide
Travel to the dark side of New Zealand
This is not going to encourage you to travel to New Zealand anytime soon, but it will draw you into its dark side.Some nice places on the map in Auckland as that’s where the author is from.
There is no getting away from the seamier side of society: drug addicts, sex workers, drunks, criminals and more.
One of the stories, “Rubbernecker,” looks at youths taking risks and riding their bikes off a cliff. Like the other stories, this is peppered with slang, local dialect and words and phrases teenagers use:
“You stand on the seat and do some bunny hops. Your hands is bruised where they squeeze the bars. Your arms shake. The handlebars jolt. You bust through warning tape into, like, this area by the cliff where you’re not sposda be but you don’t look back.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Spitshine
Destination:New Zealand Author/guide: Micheal Botur Departure Time: 2000s
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