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Dirty washing, Bruce Stewart
Once Were Warriors Alan Duff Tandem, Auckland, 1990, $35 (paperback $19.95) At last a Maori writer has managed to hang out all the dirty Maori washing with some kind of dignity and at the same time place the blame where…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Autumn 1991, Bruce Stewart, Issue 1, Tandem
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Can you believe what they say? New novels and recent history, John Needham:
Besides Myself Russell Haley Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Night at the Embassy Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, 1990, $24.95 Newlands Gary Langford Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Like a lot of middle-aged men, Midge, the out-of-work hero-narrator of Russell Haley’s latest…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1991, Elizabeth Smither, Gary Langford, Issue 1, John Needham, Penguin, Russell Haley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Scorching scrutiny, Roger Robinson
The Burning Boy Maurice Gee Viking, Auckland, 1990, $39.95 The Burning Boy does for Nelson what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York. It submits, that is, a community to scorching scrutiny. It constructs a narrative form exactly appropriate…
Double lives, Sarah Sandley
Double Lives Heather Murray University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 1990, $29.95 Heather Murray wonders why Katherine Mansfield does not allow her fictional characters to lead the kind of ‘modern’, independent and rebellious life that Mansfield herself is supposed to have…
Tagged with: Autumn 1991, Heather Murray, Issue 1, Otago University Press, Sarah Sandley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Myth-busting, Harry Ricketts
The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature Penguin Books Auckland, 1990, $24.95 ‘The story of New Zealand literature is a chapter of accidents,’ declares Patrick Evans in the introduction to his History of New Zealand Literature. ‘It is the provisional…
On the road, Kevin Ireland
The Car in New Zealand Graham Hawkes G P Books, Wellington, 1990, $49.95 Cars in particular, and machinery in general, have not featured in New Zealand novels in the way that they have so importantly served American, Australian and English…
Tagged with: Autumn 1991, G P Books, Graham Hawkes, Issue 1, Kevin Ireland
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review