The Pale North
- Published: 29 July 2015
- ISBN: 9781742539195
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
Award-winning New Zealand author Hamish Clayton's second novel, The Pale North, is a memorable and challenging exploration of myth, memory and the role of fiction in our perceptions of the world. . . . The novel's dualistic structure is a lovely example of form following function, creating a clever symmetry in which the central themes of the first half are echoed and amplified. . . . It is certainly well worth the read.
Cushla McKinney, Otago Daily Times
If you like ghost stories, mysteries, apocalypse tales or chick lit, The Pale North could be for you – but expect to be challenged.
Jim Chipp, Hutt News
WHAT AN opening sentence: ''I came back to Wellington in 1998, the year of the earthquake.'' That is the first line of Hamish Clayton's short, clever second novel, The Pale North.
Philip Matthews, Sunday Star-Times
The result is remarkable. The Pale North is short, but it's daring, fascinatingly textured, intellectually compelling, rich with metaphor and emotional resonance. Motifs of identity and connection glint through it; the actualities of life and language are constantly tested and rearranged. . . . Excellent.
David Hill, Weekend Herald
The debut novel Wulf by former Hawke's Bay man Hamish Clayton is one of the best books I've read. So I couldn't wait to get stuck into his new novel Pale North. Again I was in awe of Clayton's imaginative narrative. It begins as a ghost story, following the life of a New Zealand writer as he moves through the ruined streets of Wellington following an earthquake. Then the story changes as a new narrator takes up the story. It's a brilliant read from this very talented writer.'
Linda Hall, Hawkes Bay Weekend