Geraldine Brooks: Horse
Geraldine Brooks | Nicole Abadee
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Geraldine Brooks, Horse is a historical saga of spirit, obsession and injustice. With the moral complexity of her novel March and a multi-stranded plot reminiscent of People of the Book, she explores the true tale of one of America’s greatest racehorses while reckoning with the corrosive legacy of slavery and racism. Praised for an “almost clairvoyant ability to conjure up the textures of the past and of each character’s inner life” (The Wall Street Journal), Geraldine appears in conversation with Nicole Abadee.
This event is presented by the Sydney Writers' Festival. Geraldine Brooks appears thanks to the support of Rosie Williams and John Grill AO.
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Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks AO is the author of six novels, including the recent New York Times bestseller, Horse, and the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner, March. Born, raised and educated in Sydney, she worked for The Sydney Morning Herald, the National Times and The Wall Street Journal, for which she covered crises in the mideast, Africa and the Balkans. Her non-fiction works include Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
Nicole Abadee
Nicole is the books writer for Good Weekend, out on Saturdays in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and is also a regular contributor to their much-loved Two of Us column. She appears every second Friday on ABC Sydney talking books with Josh Szeps on his Afternoons show. She appears regularly as an interviewer at writers' festivals and literary events.
