Lobsters Tale – 3 Korero Series

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ISBN: 9780995137813
Title: Lobsters Tale – 3 Korero Series
Author: PRICE CHRIS

WHAT’S THE LOBSTER’S TUNE WHEN HE IS BOILING?
Exploring the lobster’s biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy,
The Lobster’s Tale navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition and
the appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce.
In conversation with the text, Bruce Foster’s photographs navigate a parallel
course of shadows and light, in which the extraordinary textures and colours of the
natural world tell a darker story. The Lobster’s Tale is a meditation on the quest for
immortality on which both artists and scientists have embarked, and the unhappy
consequences of the attempt to both conquer nature and create masterpieces.
Meanwhile, below the waterline of text and images, a modest voice can be overheard
whispering an alternative to these narratives of heroic and doomed exploration.
The Lobster’s Tale brings together award-winning writer Chris Price and distinguished
photographer Bruce Foster. It is the third in the korero series of ‘picture books’ edited
by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups and designed to showcase leading
New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07/10/2021
Pages: 96
Available stock: 3