Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of the memoir Affection (Text Publishing Australia 2009 and Seal Press USA 2010) which was shortlisted for the Qld Premier's Literary Award in the non-fiction category, and the 2010 ABIA awards for Biography, Triptych- An Erotic Adventure (Text 2011) and the literary fiction novel Steeplechase (Text 2013). In 2014 she won the prestigious Thomas Shapcott award for poetry for her collection, Eating My Grandmother. Her novel Holly's Incredible Adventures in the Sex Machine will also be published by Text in 2015. She has written and directed short films and broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC television and has had short stories published in literary journals, books and magazines including Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, Nerve.com, The Big Issue, Best Women's Erotica 2014, Women of Letters and The Lifted Brow.
'Witty and seductive, sexy and funny, with just a hint of the surreal, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine is a book that I can see appealing to many readers new to her work...A riotous romp through the imagination of one of Australia's most accomplished sex writers.' Books & Publishing 'Kneen's outrageous erotic imagination fuels Holly's sexcapades but at its molten X-rated core, this explicit novel is a celebration of the lust for literature as much as for physical debauchery.' Booktopia Buzz 'In mapping out Holly's sex machine, Kneen has also mapped out a vivid heroine's journey: a very sexy sci-fi-erotica hybrid with an inspired, Cronenbergian premise.' Readings 'Kneen once again shows her mastery.' Daily Telegraph 'A joyful and ambitious mix of science fiction, coming-of-age, adventure story, literary fiction and, of course, erotica. It revels unselfconsciously in bringing these different elements together and is always playful and quirky.' Australian 'The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine isn't easy to classify...Like a love-child of Barbarella and the Brave New World, it's a refreshingly confrontational mix of sci-fi surrealism, sexual stirring and erotic honesty.' Stuff NZ 'Nobody writes sex like Kneen...her finest book to date.' QWeekend 'Krissy Kneen writes about sex with nipple-stiffening zest. Her latest is consistently lewd and amusing.' Brisbane Times 'It's a rare book that seems to drift like smoke away from the printed page to rewrite the physical world...[Kneen] wants us to strip naked and be transformed.' Melbourne Review of Books 'A remarkably pleasing read. The conclusion is wildly imaginative and surprisingly satisfying...Kneen encourages the reader to delight in sexuality that is by turns innocent, gleeful, and cheerfully obscene.' STARRED Review, Publishers Weekly 'A hilarious joyride that nods to a wide array of erotic literature.' Book Riot
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