Portrait of the artist raised on soap opera and sci-fi

Portrait of the artist raised on soap opera and sci-fi

pip adam is in possession of a stratospheric talent, evident once again in her latest novel kluge (like her name, the title is lowercase), which exhibits an original prose style she credits to not having read neither a book of New Zealand or foreign literature until she was 27. She went without discernable literary influences in her nascent, formative years. The first proper book she read was Emma; Jane Austen’s canny knack for a twist was a for…