· The characters in Jennifer Down’s Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors and perpetrators. In the award-winning ‘Aokigahara’, a young woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye. In ‘Coarsegold’, a woman conducts an illicit affair while her recovering girlfriend works the overnight motel shift in the . · Jennifer Down is the author of Our Magic Hour, for which she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Best Young Novelists for Here I review her second book, a collection of short stories called Pulse bltadwin.ru review originally appeared in the August 17 edition of Good Reading Magazine. There are moments in Jennifer Down’s stories that burn into your memory like Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. · Pulse Points by Jennifer Down. Reviewed by Stella Charls. 25 Jul Jennifer Down’s debut novel, Our Magic Hour, released last year, remains one of the most absorbing works of fiction I’ve had the pleasure of reading. This intimate, emotionally astute novel about grief, relationships and everyday life, set around the streets of Melbourne.
Bookshelves: the author of Pulse Points, Jennifer Down, reveals her most prized reads. "When I was a teen I had my shoulder reconstructed and for weeks I was too stoned on pain meds to read anything but the Stephanie Plum books.". In Bookshelves, we reach out to some of our favourite contemporary authors and ask them to talk us through. Her new novel, Everyday Madness, will be published early in She is also a freelance editor and mentor, and has been a judge of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, as well as numerous short story competitions. Pulse Points. by Jennifer Down. Text Publishing, $ pb, pp, Join Jennifer Down at The Cellar for the launch of her new book, Pulse Points, by Rajith Savanadasa.. The characters in Jennifer Down's Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors and perpetrators. In the award-winning 'Aokigahara', a young woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye.
If Jennifer Down’s acclaimed debut novel Our Magic Hour was a love letter to Melbourne, her new collection Pulse Points (Text Publishing) is a letter to love itself. Down covers a lot of ground in this collection: the titular opening story, in which a couple fail to save a man and maybe themselves; a sister’s pilgrimage to Aokigahara. Pulse Points exceeds all expectations. Down brings to these 14 stories her sharp control over language, her mastery of voice and of place, and her empathetic and nuanced emotional intelligence. These are snapshots of ordinary people grappling with the small joys and deeper heartaches of ordinary lives. Down takes the reader from Aokigahara. ‘Pulse Points is beautiful Down has insight into the human condition beyond her years and a talent for writing realism in unwaveringly sharp prose. In Pulse Points she uses these skills to make a statement about the many different hearts beating in the one universe, however unrelated they may seem.’—Kill Your Darlings.
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