Poor People With Money

A novel

Poor People With Money
Dominic Hoey
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Trade Paperback
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2 Aug 2022 NZ
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9780143779865
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A darkly comic, gritty, punch-in-the-guts new novel that captures life on the poverty line in Aotearoa now, from the author of 1986, Iceland and I Thought We' d Be Famous. Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father' s dead, her catatonic mother' s in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday' s shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and she desperately needs another way to generate income. Dealing drugs off the dark web with her flatmate JJ looks like it' s working - until it really doesn' t, and the pair have to flee Tamaki Makaurau to escape the gangsters, the vampires and the ghosts of Monday' s past. This is a pacy, heart-twisting, punch-in-the-guts, darkly comic novel that captures life on the poverty line in Aotearoa now. From the award-winning poet and playwright Dominic Hoey, author of Iceland, I Thought We' d Be Famous, and the 2021 SST Short Story Award winner, 1986. Praise for Iceland, his first book"It' s kind of renegade literature . . . this book has an energy conspicuously absent in much New Zealand fiction. "- Steve Braunias, The Spinoff
Dominic Hoey is a poet, author and playwright based in Auckland, New Zealand. His short story 1986 won the 2021 Sunday Star Times Short Story Award. Dominic' s debut novel, Iceland was a New Zealand bestseller, and long-listed for the 2018 Ockham Book Award. His latest poetry collection, I Thought We' d Be Famous was released in October 2019 through Dead Bird books. It is in its 5th reprint and has sold over 2,000 copies to date. His autobiographical one person show, Your Heart Looks Like a Vagina, a dark comedy about living with autoimmune disease, had three sell out runs in New Zealand and was performed at the Brisbane Poetry Festival in 2017. Dominic was nominated for best new playwright at the 2018 Wellington Theatre Awards. In 2021 his second one person show, 45 Cents an Hour, had 2 sellout runs and was met with Rave reviews. In a former life, Dominic was an MC battle and slam-poetry champion. He' s performed his poetry in Australia, Europe, England, Japan, and America. Dominic has been a youth worker since 2014, working with marginalised youth excluded from the education system, using art, yoga and meditation to help them with their mental health and to transition into higher education or employment.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780143779865
Published: 2 Aug 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Publisher: Penguin Group NZ
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 288

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