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Man of Clay Kindle Edition

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A literary novel.
Cover features sculpture 'Small Things' by Sam Jinks.

Connie lives in a modern day harem with her ex, the next two wives and their five children. It's a 'sensible' arrangement that cracks when a new woman arrives on the scene. Is this one wife too many? Connie struggles with the realisation she must finally let her husband go. As she builds her last collection of ceramics, Connie reflects on longing, serial monogamy and his career as a herpetologist. Humans have much in common with frogs. Metamorphosis parallels the reactions of mud and glaze in a kiln. Man of Clay is about family, frogs and art. The kiln fires hotter than the crematorium.

Length: 312 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Victoria lives in Melbourne, Australia. She's worked in television script departments, written scripts and published articles and short stories in various magazines. You can find her young adult fiction trilogy, Ektek, and read her blog at www.ourrelationshipwithnature.com.au --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00TRW4GYI
Language : English
File size : 760 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 312 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0994218117

Best Sellers Rank: 1,206,943 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 81 in Ceramic Arts
- 202 in Ceramic Art
- 20,275 in Literary Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Gilly McInnes

A beautifully written novel that enriches the reader.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2015

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An absorbing read. Not just for the intriguing and interesting narrative, but for every metaphor, every counterpoint of information and insight into all living creatures. Set in a Sydney brought viscerally to life, Man of Clay provides opportunity to reflect on the human condition and on expression of that through family, love, art and children. A large, rich and complex living, distilled through the lens of one woman. I rarely read books more than once, but I will with this one, I am sure. I contemplated it between reading sessions, I think about it still (and imagine alternative endings). Even that consideration is immensely satisfying as the present ending is powerful, while jarring. A beautifully written novel which enriches the reader.

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flipmil

Engaging, evocative and darkly entertaining

Reviewed in Australia on 17 April 2015

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Man of Clay is an elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel, composed of ceramic pieces, colourful frogs and complex characters within the narrative. In a satisfying counterpoint, the character's relationships unravel and break apart as the ceramics are assembled. Delivered from the perspective of ceramicist Connie, the story spans decades and several permutations of her family. The novel family structure seems to offer security and stability but there are inevitable complications and conflicts, which hold surprises and slightly macabre twists.
I found the characters engaging and clearly drawn, their unusual connections made entirely convincing. The evocation of late nineties Sydney is strong and the novel has a confident sense of time and place. The intertwining of environmental issues, replete with dark overtones of extinction and disappearance, with the tenuous relationships holding the family together is very neatly executed.

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Eliza bram

loved it

Reviewed in Australia on 26 March 2015

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Fascinating, easy to digest but leaves you feeling like you've have a good nutritious meal. Relationships, creativity, science, evolution,conservation. Highly recommend it..

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Jenny Thompson

I thought this a very well constructed novel. It's ...

Reviewed in Australia on 4 December 2015

I thought this a very well constructed novel. It's hard to say too much without revealing the clever twist at the end. But a thorough research of frogs and pot making have paid off in this well written novel about an unusual set of relationships and families. Most enjoyable.

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