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TESS
Fierce and unforgettable a sex-worker's searing yet redemptive story
Shortlisted: Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2009
Winner: White Ribbon Award from Women Demand Dignity in 2008
TESS premiered in India at the BRICS Festival and will premier in Europe at the Brussels Film Festival 2016.
Dig its nails into you from the word go: raw, tender, and laugh-outloud funny a kick-arse gem of a book. Told with startling poetry in the grittiest of emotional landscapes, it puts Farren on the map as a wordsmith of astonishing talent.' Joanne Fedler
A powerfully-voiced novel in the vein of Lisa McInerney's THE GLORIOUS HERESIES or FISHNET by Kirstin Innes. TESS, the film version of Tracey Farren's debut novel WHIPLASH (with a screenplay by Tracey herself) has won major film awards: and Modjaji will be re-issuing WHIPLASH in a South African film tie-in edition as TESS in February 2017. Farren's powerful debut is the gut-wrenching story of a Muizenberg sex worker, Tess, who pops painkillers by the handful and sells her body to strangers. When a condom breaks, Tess gives up her drugs until she can get to an abortion clinic. Going cold turkey drives her into a shattering
understanding of how she got to where she is now, but her quirky humour, raw honesty and deep love of beauty lead her to find redemption in astonishing places. This is a book with a huge heart, like Tess, revealing that there is something in every human being that cannot be sullied by human hands.
Tracey has an extraordinary gift for characters' authentic voices: her second novel, SNAKE (Modjaji Books), is told from the point of view of feisty twelve-year-old Stella, the tenacious and imaginative child of a disenfranchised family living on a Cape farm. Tracey has also adapted it for the screen, and it will be developed into a film in the near future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracey Farren lives in Cape Town with her four dogs, a surfer partner and three children. She has a degree in psychology and worked as a freelance journalist and scriptwriter before turning to fiction. She is completing her third novel, THE RIG, a speculative psychological thriller set in the middle of the ocean off the coast of Africa.
Winner: White Ribbon Award from Women Demand Dignity in 2008
TESS premiered in India at the BRICS Festival and will premier in Europe at the Brussels Film Festival 2016.
Dig its nails into you from the word go: raw, tender, and laugh-outloud funny a kick-arse gem of a book. Told with startling poetry in the grittiest of emotional landscapes, it puts Farren on the map as a wordsmith of astonishing talent.' Joanne Fedler
A powerfully-voiced novel in the vein of Lisa McInerney's THE GLORIOUS HERESIES or FISHNET by Kirstin Innes. TESS, the film version of Tracey Farren's debut novel WHIPLASH (with a screenplay by Tracey herself) has won major film awards: and Modjaji will be re-issuing WHIPLASH in a South African film tie-in edition as TESS in February 2017. Farren's powerful debut is the gut-wrenching story of a Muizenberg sex worker, Tess, who pops painkillers by the handful and sells her body to strangers. When a condom breaks, Tess gives up her drugs until she can get to an abortion clinic. Going cold turkey drives her into a shattering
understanding of how she got to where she is now, but her quirky humour, raw honesty and deep love of beauty lead her to find redemption in astonishing places. This is a book with a huge heart, like Tess, revealing that there is something in every human being that cannot be sullied by human hands.
Tracey has an extraordinary gift for characters' authentic voices: her second novel, SNAKE (Modjaji Books), is told from the point of view of feisty twelve-year-old Stella, the tenacious and imaginative child of a disenfranchised family living on a Cape farm. Tracey has also adapted it for the screen, and it will be developed into a film in the near future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracey Farren lives in Cape Town with her four dogs, a surfer partner and three children. She has a degree in psychology and worked as a freelance journalist and scriptwriter before turning to fiction. She is completing her third novel, THE RIG, a speculative psychological thriller set in the middle of the ocean off the coast of Africa.
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Published 2023-05-11 by Modjaji Books SA |