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The viewing platform / Ian Wedde.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 2006.Description: 346 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143020929 (pbk.) :
  • 0143020927 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Subject: The novel follows a group of local and international cultural tourism experts, including academics, ad execs, entrepreneurs and government representatives, as they make their way around New Zealand, taking in the view. Nancy, the daughter of hotel owners, is an Australian academic with a damaged body but a steel-trap mind; William, a shy New Zealander, is the marketing genius behind the Absolute Pure campaigns; Patricia, a government representative, is in charge; Hinemoana is the gorgeous Maori manaakitanga and hospitality specialist, who is partial to a drop of fine New Zealand wine; Joris, owner of Good 2 Go, is a manipulative Dutch adventure tourism entrepreneur; Biswas, a representative of the dodgy Bangladeshi Culture Tourism Operative, is caught up in an family tragedy; and Stan, the bus driver, is a hard-case Kiwi who can't understand why they won't just look at the view. Each character has a nickname that plays out the hidden or unexplored sides of their personalities.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room Stack Room WED 2 Available T00429490
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

New Zealand's spectacular scenic views are used in this bitingly satirical novel as launching platforms for the catastrophic road trip by a team of dysfunctional cultural tourism consultants. They disappear, they go berserk, they self-destruct, the end up in porn sites and sit-down ablution facilities for the elderly. It's Beauty, Purity, Authenticity, Adventure and Hospitality that destroy the team. Combining satire, essay and road-trip storyline, The Viewing Platform also asks the questions: where are we when we re at home? In the sex-bandit underworld of Bangladesh ('Get here before the tourists do'), amid the marketable beauties of New Zealand s iconic landscapes, on Cowgirl.com, in the demand-side danger and supply-side safety of adventure tourism, in an Absolutely Pure place, home goes terribly wrong. So what survives'.

Novel.

The novel follows a group of local and international cultural tourism experts, including academics, ad execs, entrepreneurs and government representatives, as they make their way around New Zealand, taking in the view. Nancy, the daughter of hotel owners, is an Australian academic with a damaged body but a steel-trap mind; William, a shy New Zealander, is the marketing genius behind the Absolute Pure campaigns; Patricia, a government representative, is in charge; Hinemoana is the gorgeous Maori manaakitanga and hospitality specialist, who is partial to a drop of fine New Zealand wine; Joris, owner of Good 2 Go, is a manipulative Dutch adventure tourism entrepreneur; Biswas, a representative of the dodgy Bangladeshi Culture Tourism Operative, is caught up in an family tragedy; and Stan, the bus driver, is a hard-case Kiwi who can't understand why they won't just look at the view. Each character has a nickname that plays out the hidden or unexplored sides of their personalities.

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