Sarah Hall – Between The Purple Passages

Between The Purple Passages

by Ashley Zimunya

The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction

1. The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy 2nd year text *This book features child sexual abuse, domestic violence and other kinds of violence, graphically depicted. “At Papachi’s funeral, Mammachi cried and her contact lenses slid around in her eyes. Ammu told the twins that Mammachi was crying… Continue reading

Prose and Poetry

Aldous Huxley, Arundhati Roy, Brave New World, Jane Austen, Karen Joy Fowler, Northanger Abbey, Sarah Hall, The God of Small Things, The Wolf Border, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“A Rich Man’s Whimsy”: Approaches to Rewilding in Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border

In her 2015 novel The Wolf Border Sarah Hall depicts the phenomena of rewilding, a process in conservation biology whereby extirpated species are reintroduced to their original landscapes in an effort to decrease human intervention in nature’s processes. Set against the backdrop of an alternate Scottish independence referendum, Hall explores… Continue reading

Past Essays, Prose and Poetry

Sarah Hall, The Wolf Border

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If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

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