{"product_id":"hoops-of-steel-new-and-selected-stories","title":"Hoops of Steel: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThis bright and charming collection spans more than six decades of short stories by New Zealand writer Marilyn Duckworth, now in her ninety-second year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eA traveller loses her notebook in London and finds a husband instead. An elderly woman starts talking to dolls. A man walks away from his wife trapped under a fallen wardrobe. A bride arrives years too late.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSharp, funny and exacting, these short stories by award-winning writer Marilyn Duckworth showcase the domestic and inner lives of women carving out independence amid zealous friendships, reckless lovers and demanding families.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e'Alive with life’s unexpected turns, these zesty stories will give you a boost. They’re in favour of appetite—for love, for sex, for survival. Across a span of sixty years, they remain astonishingly fresh. This book is a beguiling gift.' \u003cbr\u003e—Damien Wilkins, author of \u003cem\u003eDelirious\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarilyn Duckworth \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Ōtāhuhu in 1935, spent a wartime childhood in England and now lives in Wellington. She is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She has also written extensively for television and radio. Duckworth was the 1980 recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. She won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction with \u003cem\u003eDisorderly Conduct \u003c\/em\u003e(1984), and her novel \u003cem\u003eLeather Wings\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1996. Her memoir, \u003cem\u003eCamping on the Faultline,\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2000, and \u003cem\u003eThe Chiming Blue: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003ein 2017. She was awarded an OBE for Services to Literature. in 1987 and the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in fiction in 2016.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover photo: Master1305\/Shutterstock\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53106075730231,"sku":"9781776923366","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923366HoopsofSteel.jpg?v=1791334952","url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/products\/hoops-of-steel-new-and-selected-stories","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}