Acid Song

The novel covers forty-eight hours that take in election day. A young father comes face to face with a boy breaking into his home; a psychologist's politics put his university post at risk; teachers argue over whether a fight in the playground should get a pupil expelled; a girl tries to get over heartbreak; skinheads riot. Chance ties all of them to Richard, a biology lecturer whose hidden secret draws them, without their knowing, towards one ending.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand

First published

2008 by Longacre Press

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9781877460111 (Random House New Zealand, New Zealand)