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Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
‘This tense novel, held tightly with elegant restraint, is hard to read for the best possible reasons. It asks a lot of its reader, but it offers the most satisfying rewards.’
The Lifted Brow
‘Exploded View has all the exhilaration of a revved-up Holden’
Age
‘Exploded View…(is) a measured, poetic focus on the small details in nature, roads and relationships.’
Arts Hub
‘This is Tiffany’s triumph…her prose has the alert, truncated poetry of a preternatural wise child—lyrical without being florid, clear-sighted by unhappy with that early knowledge…It’s title might suggest splintering of focus, but the line drawn in Exploded View is unwavering, tragic, and heads straight down.’
Monthly
‘This is a very different novel to Tiffany’s early books…The language is glitter, angrier and focalised exquisitely through this girl’s perspective.’
Australian
‘Carrie Tiffany’s third novel…As spare as a poem, as potent as a depth charge.’
SA Weekend
‘Tiffany pulls off something remarkable here: erecting a narrative structure almost buckling under its own weight, but that ultimately holds up. Challenging and devastating, this is an important read.’
Overland
'Exploded View is an offbeat coming-of-age story...there is hardly a detail that does not reverberate beyond itself, evoke some deeper implication.’
Australian Book Review
Shortlisted for Voss Literary Prize 2020
The Lifted Brow
‘Exploded View has all the exhilaration of a revved-up Holden’
Age
‘Exploded View…(is) a measured, poetic focus on the small details in nature, roads and relationships.’
Arts Hub
‘This is Tiffany’s triumph…her prose has the alert, truncated poetry of a preternatural wise child—lyrical without being florid, clear-sighted by unhappy with that early knowledge…It’s title might suggest splintering of focus, but the line drawn in Exploded View is unwavering, tragic, and heads straight down.’
Monthly
‘This is a very different novel to Tiffany’s early books…The language is glitter, angrier and focalised exquisitely through this girl’s perspective.’
Australian
‘Carrie Tiffany’s third novel…As spare as a poem, as potent as a depth charge.’
SA Weekend
‘Tiffany pulls off something remarkable here: erecting a narrative structure almost buckling under its own weight, but that ultimately holds up. Challenging and devastating, this is an important read.’
Overland
'Exploded View is an offbeat coming-of-age story...there is hardly a detail that does not reverberate beyond itself, evoke some deeper implication.’
Australian Book Review
Shortlisted for Voss Literary Prize 2020