Specimen - Personal Essays

Author(s): Madison Hamill

New Zealand Literature | Essays

A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp eye. Was she good or evil? Ignorant or enlightened? What parts of herself did she give up in order to forge ahead in school, church, work, and relationships, with a self that made sense to others? With wit and intelligence, these shape-shifting essays probe the ways in which a person's inner and outer worlds intersect and submit to one another. It is a brilliantly discomfiting, vivid and funny collection in which peace is found in the weirdest moments.   


Product Information

The E H McCormick prize for a best first work of general nonfiction --Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021

General Fields

  • : 9781776563012
  • : Victoria University Press
  • : March 2020
  • : {"length"=>["21"], "width"=>["14"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Madison Hamill
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 234