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Imagined pasts, alternative futures, Craig Cliff
The Necessary Angel C K Stead Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781760631529 Salt Picnic Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561698 Our Future is in the Air Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561179 When a white male…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Autumn 2018, C K Stead, Craig Cliff, Issue 121, Patrick Evans, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fiction’s odd couple, Mark Williams
Gifted Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736376 A curious rumour about this new novel by Patrick Evans preceded its publication. The rumour was that Evans had done something exceptionally good and it came from people one didn’t…
Tagged with: Frank Sargeson, Issue 92, Janet Frame, Mark Williams, Patrick Evans, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Cooked up, Stuart Murray
The Long Forgetting: Post-colonial Literary Culture in New Zealand Patrick Evans Canterbury University Press, $34.50, ISBN 9781877257698 Approximately halfway through Patrick Evans’ study comes a paragraph that, upon reflection, more or less sums up the way the book works. The…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 83, Patrick Evans, Spring 2008, Stuart Murray
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The Jones effect, Patrick Evans
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 9780143020899 Lloyd Jones is the man who wrote a book about a child molester, and no one noticed – what better proof do we need that journalists don’t really read fiction? And yet…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Lloyd Jones, Patrick Evans, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Falling on his feet, Patrick Evans
Backwards to Forwards: A Memoir Kevin Ireland Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414993 Some time in 1986 (I think it was), Kevin Ireland turned up at the University of Canterbury English Department as writer-in-residence. What returns to the memory is a series…
Clinging to the wreckage, Patrick Evans
Harlequin Rex Owen Marshall Random House/Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 395 4 Y2K is past, the computer and the fridge are still working, but in Owen Marshall’s new novel Harlequin Rex the millennium has unexpectedly tossed up another problem, an…
Tagged with: Issue 39, Owen Marshall, Patrick Evans, Random House, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
When the conversation lollies run out, Patrick Evans
The Dictionary of New Zealand English: New Zealand words and their origins ed H W Orsman Oxford University Press, $150.00, ISBN 0 19 558347 7 It is nearly 20 years since I and a number of fellow conference-goers spent an…
Tagged with: H W Orsman, Issue 31, Patrick Evans, Spring 1997
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
The “Frame effect”, Patrick Evans
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