Book description
With the advent of the new millennium comes a new disease - Harlequin
Rex - and a variety of reactions to it. The men and women in this
intriguing novel find themselves caught up in a terrifying novelty, and
all must cope as best they can. Their response is influenced as much by
the past as by present events, however, those formative things that lie
far back in us all: guilt, loyalty, compromise and love - especially
love. Owen Marshall is a novelist, short-story writer and poet, who
has written or edited over twenty books to date. Awards for his fiction
include the New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters,
fellowships at Otago and Canterbury universities and the Katherine
Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton, France. In 2000 he received the
ONZM for services to literature and his novel Harlequin Rex won the
Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction. In 2002 the
University of Canterbury awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Letters, and in 2005 appointed him an adjunct professor.
