PASSION PLAY, 2003, Arcadia

Passion Play is the story of one woman's search for meaning in the latter half of the 20th Century.

It is a tour de force exploration of the consciousness of a contemporary woman. It is a novel in a collection of fragments - dreams, notes, diary entries, travel sketches, confessions, prose poems, short stories – linked by recurrent themes which create a mosaic of meaning.

The fragmentary structure reflects that this is a book all about brokenness – broken relationships, broken journeys, broken communities, broken connections with the spirit. ‘Passion’ has at least two meanings here – the passion of love and desire, and the passion of religion, the search for traces of God in the broken images and symbols of a godless age.

Use the links above to read extracts from the book.

Harris Smart is a Melbourne writer who now lives in New South Wales. The book costs AUD $35 including postage anywhere in the world and can be ordered directly from Harris Smart. Please email Harris if you are interested in purchasing a copy.