{"id":36963,"date":"2019-09-05T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36963"},"modified":"2019-09-01T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T10:22:52","slug":"the-father-of-octopus-wrestling-by-frankie-mcmillan-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/the-father-of-octopus-wrestling-by-frankie-mcmillan-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Father Of Octopus Wrestling” by Frankie McMillan — Launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, Frankie McMillan’s\u00a0The Father Of Octopus Wrestling<\/em><\/strong> (Canterbury University Press) was launched at Scorpio Bookshop here in Christchurch.<\/p>\n

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The event featured a great turnout and an Octopus cake — with a very nice introduction by Catherine Montgomery, the publisher at CUP, and the official launch speech by fellow-author, Tracy Farr<\/a>, who really seemed to “grok” Frankie’s work. It was particularly nice to have Catherine Montgomery cite my July 8 post on Frankie’s prior book, My Mother and the Hungarians<\/em><\/a>, with respect to Frankie’s “slantwise” and “subversive” voice, together with quotes from Lloyd Jones<\/a> and Steve Braunias<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Octopus cake with books behind…<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite not feeling terribly well, Frankie still managed to give a creditable author’s speech and to read two of the “short fictions” from the new book — before “dealing” to the Octopus cake. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Tracy Farr giving the launch speech<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s been ages since I’ve been to a launch, or any literary event for that matter, but this one was lively, fun, and we all got to share Frankie’s pleasure in so beautiful a book, which really is exquisite — book as objet d’art as well as story. \ud83d\ude42 And although I’ve only had a sneak-peek so far, what wonderful stories they are!<\/p>\n

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Frankie prepares to deal to the Octopus. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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