A01=Fiona Kidman
Author_Fiona Kidman
Category=D
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393333329
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2008
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The scene is Auckland during the Second World War. In the warrenlike old tenement the residents call Paddy’s Puzzle, Clara Bentley awaits the arrival of Ambrose, her black lover, an American marine. She also waits for the bomb that might fall when the air raid siren sounds at night. She waits for visits from the strange inhabitants of the Puzzle—prostitutes; blackmarketeers; old Ma Hollis, who helps her keep body and soul together; and a host of others. She waits, too, for the culmination of an illness that has weakened her irremediably.
