Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Love School Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox The Love School. Culled from two decades of nonfiction writing from an original and much-celebrated author, these essays tell the story of important moments and experiences in Elizabeth Knox's life. From her first literary efforts as a child to the jobs she took to support herself so she could write, these writings provide a brilliant and personal look into the life of an internationally successful writer. Displaying the vivid and rich qualities for which Knox is renowned, these works reveal the process through which Knox creates as well as the purpose behind her work. Elizabeth Knox. Elizabeth Knox is one of New Zealand’s most successful writers. Author of thirteen novels and three novellas, her poetic, imaginative work ranges from autobiographical fiction, to fantasy. With each publication, Elizabeth has continued to gain awards and recognition. In 2000 she was the recipient of the Arts Foundation New Zealand Laureate Award, in 2002 was awarded an ONZM for her services to literature in the New Zealand Queen’s Birthday honours list and in 2020 a CNZM once again for services to literature. She received the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2019. Author Anna Smaill wrote: ‘Elizabeth Knox’s brain is an engine that runs on narrative’. Amongst her extensive list of accolades, Elizabeth’s book The Vintner’s Luck (first published by Victoria UP, 1998) won both the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the Readers’ Choice and Booksellers’ Choice awards in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize (2001). It was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize (1999). The Vintner’s Luck is published in ten languages. Elizabeth’s book for young adults, Dreamhunter (HarperCollins, 2005), won the 2006 Esther Glen Medal and was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults (2007). Dreamhunter’s sequel Dreamquake (HarperCollins, 2007), was a Michael L Printz Honor book for 2008 and, in the same year, was named an ALA, a CCBC, Booklist, and New York Library best book. A collection of essays, The Love School won the biography and memoir section of the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2009. Elizabeth’s latest young adult title, Mortal Fire , was a finalist in the 2014 LA Times Book Awards, and won the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Her latest work, a fantasy novel entitled The Absolute Book (VUP, 2019) is described by writer Pip Adam as ‘a triumph of fantasy grounded in the reality and challenges of the moment we live in’. The Absolute Book was longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2020 Ockham Book Awards. Elizabeth lives in Wellington with her husband, Fergus Barrowman, and son, Jack. Links. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page. NZETC list of works, journals and citations. New releases by Elizabeth Knox. Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy (anthology) Published by Victoria University Press on November 12, 2020. Bibliography: Elizabeth Knox. Fiction. The Absolute Book (Victoria University Press, 2019) Wake (Corsair, 2013) Mortal Fire (YA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) The Angel’s Cut ([Sequel to The Vintner’s Luck ], Vintage, 2009) Dreamquake (YA [Book 2 of the Dreamhunter Duet ]: HarperCollins, 2007) Dreamhunter (YA [Book 1 of the Dreamhunter Duet ]: HarperCollins, 2005) Daylight (Ballantine, 2003) Billie’s Kiss (Vintage, 2002) Black Oxen (Victoria UP; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Chatto & Windus, 2001) O Audacious Book. I have sk immed and am now reading page by page Elizabeth Knox's wonderful collection of essays The Love School: Personal Essays . I am a terrible skimmer of non-fiction, especially exciting non-fiction. But I really must settle and read it properly because everything I've caught sight of so far has been the stuff that David Larsen describes as making 'the world tilt'. It is truly a fascinating insight into the mind of one of this country's most imaginative and successful writers and Larsen's review does it justice. Rather than try and replicate that, here are some of the bits and pieces I've collected on Elizabeth Knox over the past few months, planning at some stage to post something on her on O Audacious Book . As happens, I still have the notes scrawled in red ink in one of my moleskine notebooks, and a tatty old review or two and nothing more substantial. So rather than dally any longer, here they are . * Most of the notes were scrawled down when I heard Elizabeth Knox speak at the NZ Post National Schools Writing Festival at Victoria University in August. She was her usual frank self - talking deeply and absorbingly about why she writes and what she writes. One student asked her where she got all her ideas from and she said: 'I'm persecuted by ideas, I know what I'm going to write for the next ten years.' On what to write about: 'I wait for something that is so exciting it's driving me crazy. I have a lot of ideas but I don't always know which end to start it from.' To other writers: 'Take what really blows up your skirt and take an angle on it - something you haven't thought about before.' And 'every idea is a whole lot of ideas bundled up together.' On the physicality of finishing the Dreamhunter books: 'The matrix of the whole story was falling out of my head and my brain was unravelling. It was physical. A very strange feeling.' On her new novel The Angel's Cut - the 'sequel to The Vintner's Luck' due out soon: 'Xas is so pleased with himself and so powerful and so ruined at the end (of TVL). And you start with the ruined Xas in The Angel's Cut.' Knox says she was preoccupied with flight in The Angel's Cut. 'Xas lost his wings in Vintner's Luck. He's very small and thinks he's an insignificant (? or maybe she said 'significant'?) angel. He's been wandering the earth since he lost his love Sobran. He's been back in the air including on a zeppelin in WWI in an airshow in France. ' On the the negative reaction to Black Oxen: 'I was walking down the street and I thought 'I don't want anyone to look at me.'' * I have kept a Listener review of The Vintner's Luck when it came out ten years ago (it has been stunningly re-issued to celebrate its tenth anniversary). The review is by writer Peter Wells and reminds me of the excitement so many people felt on reading Vintner's Luck all those years ago and continue to feel, and the excitement many of us have felt ever since when we see Knox's name on another new novel. The truth is, you never know what to expect when you open that fresh shiny cover, but you do know it'll be a ride to remember. Appositely, at the school writing festival this year, Knox read a scene from The Angel's Cut which described Xas on a rollercoaster in the US. It was sensational. Literally. I barely wrote a word I was so taken up with experiencing the physical sensation of that ride. I did record a single quote that has no context but clearly stunned me at the time: 'left that person's hungry skin.' Here's Peter Wells ( The Listener 1998 ): Reading The Vintner's Luck , I was reminded of why we read. We read to evade the weight of time ('Despair is gravity' - Elizabeth Knox.) We read also to experience the pleasure, almost unseen, of a beautiful construction, an airy theorem that exists only in words on the page and inside our heads. We read also to forget who or where we are. As Elizabeth Knox says, 'Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or neighbours.' 4 comments: It was such a pleasure to listen to Elizabeth in conversation with her sister Sara at the Christchurch Writers festival. I've ordered The Love School from UBS and can't wait for it to arrive - some summer holiday reading to look forward to. Thanks for the heads up on The Angel's Cut . I loved The Vintner's Luck and had no idea there was a sequel coming out. Knox has come a long way since her first novel, The Z Hour , which I have a copy of in my library. I found that book quite clunky (I've got to stop using these literary terms) and it almost put me off her, then I met Xas, and the full force of an eccentric, beautiful imagination transferred expertly to ink, and have been hankering to read more. Better yet, I've just been reading Bookman Beattie, and The Vintner's Luck is coming out on movie over 2009. That will be a fascinating movie, if done correctly. I hope it's been made for an adult audience. If anyone has links to the movie, I'd love to have them. Beattie's link above is a great one too. I read The Love School by Elizabeth Knox, Its very good book, I really enjoy reading this book. The Love School : Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox (2009, Trade Paperback) С самой низкой ценой, совершенно новый, неиспользованный, неоткрытый, неповрежденный товар в оригинальной упаковке (если товар поставляется в упаковке). Упаковка должна быть такой же, как упаковка этого товара в розничных магазинах, за исключением тех случаев, когда товар является изделием ручной работы или был упакован производителем в упаковку не для розничной продажи, например в коробку без маркировки или в пластиковый пакет.