Dennis McEldowney (1926-2003) In the 1991 edition of Who’s Who in New Zealand, Dennis listed two “recreations” – “gardening” and “looking about”. On Monday this week, a few hours before he died, Dennis was still “looking about”. Most of…
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The thinking person’s romance, Dennis McEldowney
The Beetle in the Box: a love story Chris Else Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414527 Anyone who has sat on the selection panel for a writer’s fellowship knows that the worst thing applicants can do is include a bald précis of…
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Tagged with: Chris Else, Dennis McEldowney, Issue 48, June 2001, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Both sides now, Peter Wells
The World Regained Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1869402537 From the Wisteria Bush Vanya Lowry Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402561 The nature of memoir is an act of resurrection, exploration, delineation. It is both a wreath placed…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2001, Dennis McEldowney, Issue 53, Peter Wells, Vanya Lowry
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The luck was all ours, Mac Jackson
An Absurd Ambition: Autobiographical Writings E H McCormick ed Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 156 5 There were giants on the earth in those days” and we follow their footsteps with awe. When writing a chapter on…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1996, Dennis McEldowney, E H McCormick, Issue 25, Mac Jackson
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Saying it like it is, Jane Stafford
Palm Prints Fiona Kidman Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 228 1 Then and There: a Seventies Diary Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86950 116 6 Accidental Life Phoebe Meikle Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 108…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dennis McEldowney, Fiona Kidman, Issue 19, Jane Stafford, Mallinson Rendel, Mona Williams, Phoebe Meikle, Spring 1995, Vintage
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Compulsive reading, Diane Hebley
Shaking the Bee Tree Dennis McEldowney, Auckland University Press, $29.95 Almost as much autobiography as biography, Dennis McEldowney’s Shaking the Bee Tree is essentially a fascinating love story made possible by modern surgery. Since both he and his subject, Zoë Greenhough, were…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1993, Dennis McEldowney, Diane Hebley, Issue 8, Zoë Greenhough
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review