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Issue 21, December 1995
Issue 21, December 1995 Letters, December 1995 Vincent O’Sullivan: Michael King, Frank Sargeson: A Life Stephen Levine: Martin Hames, Winston First: The unauthorised account of Winston Peters’ career David Grant: Mike Brewer (with Phil Gifford), Mike Brewer: The Authorised Biography…
Letters — Issue 21
Issue 21, December 1995 No dearth of full-length critiques Were it not for his obvious credentials for commenting on recent literary criticism and post-colonial theory, one might think that Stuart Murray in his otherwise stimulating review (New Zealand Books 20,…
Funnier, meaner Sargeson beyond this good Life, Vincent 0’Sullivan
Frank Sargeson: A Life Michael King Penguin, $49.95 hardback (paper to come) ISBN 0 670 83847 0 It is easy to appreciate the view that impartial biography ‑ if such a thing ever really exists ‑ is not likely to…
Tagged with: Frank Sargeson, Issue 21, Michael King, Penguin Books
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Not McCarthy, Stephen Levine
Winston First: The unauthorised account of Winston Peters’ career Martin Hames Random House, $29.95 ISBN 186941 2575 A Whitcoulls shopping guide giving front-page billing to Ruth Richardson’s Making A Difference perhaps inadvertently placed it right alongside a book titled The…
Tagged with: Issue 21, Martin Hames, Random House, Stephen Levine, Winston Peters
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Authorised incompleteness, David Grant
Mike Brewer: The Authorised Biography Mike Brewer (with Phil Gifford) Rugby Publishers ISBN 0908630 530 New Zealand blokes are disciples of ritual. Most Saturday afternoons I happily participate in one myself. Following an hour or two chasing a petulant black…
Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 21, Phil Gifford, Rugby Publishers
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
In short, a master stylist, Bill Sewell
Coming Home in the Dark Owen Marshall Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 186941 266 4 A Many Coated Man Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 9583405 2 8 Is it unfair to say that there’s such a thing as a typical…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 21, Longacre Press, Owen Marshall, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From trad old to power web, Lydia Wevers
mum Stevan Eldred‑Grigg Penguin Books, $24.95 ISBN 0 140 25244 4 A Many Coated Man Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 9583405 2 8 Crossroads Janice Marriott Reed Children’s Books, $14.95 ISBN 1 86948 928 4 My mother didn’t…
Tagged with: Issue 21, Janice Marriott, Longacre Press, Lydia Wevers, Owen Marshall, Penguin Book, Reed Children's Books, Stevan Eldred‑Grigg
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From history to autobiography, Chris Prentice
Mum Stevan Eldred‑Grigg Penguin, $22.95 ISBN 0140 252444 The cover of Stevan Eldred‑Grigg’s latest novel, Mum, announces this work as the conclusion of the Oracles & Miracles series. Oracles & Miracles, the first novel of the trilogy presents, in alternated…
Tagged with: Chris Prentice, Issue 21, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred‑Grigg
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ironies with wry detachment, Iain Sharp
My Name is Paradiso James McNeish David Ling, $24.95 ISBN 0908990278 On the back cover of his seventh novel, there’s a head-and-shoulders photograph of James McNeish taken by his wife, Helen. The author has been caught midway through the process…
National revolutionary, Stuart Murray
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