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Acid Song Bernard Beckett ISBN: 9781877460111 Release: 08-2008 Subject: General Fiction Format: Paperback RRP: NZ$29.99 Read Extract

It’s election day in contemporary New Zealand. A young father confronts a teenage burglar. A psychologist’s political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community. A staffroom argument flares up – does a play­ground fight warrant a student’s expulsion? A young girl sets about mending her broken heart, a skinhead riot erupts and Richard, the biology lecturer at the heart of this simmering forty-eight hours, must deal with the secret which compels them all, unknowingly, to the same conclusion.

In Acid Song, an absorbing and darting novel, a varied cast of characters is linked by chance and circumstance. With a powerful, addictive intensity Bernard Beckett composes a corrosive song of our times.

'A stunning novel of addictive intensity.'

Reviewers Comments ... ‘All too rarely are New Zealand readers invited to a party of such erudite, sophisticated and enlightening ideas. Acid Song is one of those stimulating evenings that make the hangover worthwhile' - Sunday Star Times, 2008 'The dialogue-driven narrative romps along...' - The Press, 2008

Awards and Prizes

Runner-up in the Fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2009