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Book Synopsis An Affair of the Heart by : Frank Sargeson
Download or read book An Affair of the Heart written by Frank Sargeson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short story writer, novelist and playwright Frank Sargeson (1903-1982) laid the foundation for a truly New Zealand literature and was a mentor for scores of aspiring writers who met and talked at his Takapuna bach. The Frank Sargeson Trust continues his work in helping New Zealand writers. In 1997 the national law firm Buddle Finlay became the sponsor of the fellowship established in his name to allow a writer to live and work free from the financial hardships that Sargeson had to contend with all his life. In this anthology which marks the centenary of Frank Sargeson's birth writers who knew Sargeson recall his generosity and spirit. The collection is a showcase for many of NZ's finest writers along with a selection of Sargeson's writing at its brilliant best.
Book Synopsis Letters of Frank Sargeson by : Sarah Shieff
Download or read book Letters of Frank Sargeson written by Sarah Shieff and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and riveting record of both literary and social value. Frank Sargeson is one of New Zealand's best-loved and most important writers. Besides the ground-breaking short stories, he wrote memoirs, novels, and plays. He encouraged at least three generations of younger writers and, for most of his adult life, the famous bach behind the hedge at 14 Esmonde Road was at the heart of New Zealand's artistic and literary world. Sargeson was also a prolific letter writer, and this selection of 500 of the most fascinating ranges over half a century, from 1927 to 1981. The letters are immensely readable, vividly capturing his life and times, his milieu and his personality. Frank loved gossip, could be bitchy and peevish, but also kind, affectionate, funny, ribald, astute. This collection, selected, edited and annotated by Sarah Shieff, is a document of extraordinary significance for all those interested in New Zealand's literary and social history.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories by : Vincent O'Sullivan
Download or read book The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories written by Vincent O'Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents 50 stories by over 40 of New Zealand's best writers. Nineteenth-century writing, which is largely unknown, is represented by Clara Cheeseman and G B Lancaster, as well as by the more familiar Lady Barker and itinerant Henry Lawson. In the early twentieth century Katherine Mansfield is followed by Greville Texidor as well as Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin. The middle years of the century exhibit a flowering of talent. Janet Frame, Maurice Duggan, and Maurice Geeare all fine practitioners of the genre, while Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace are the strong voices of Maori writing. The past dozen or so years have seen an explosion of new writing, with talents as diverse as Owen Marshall, Keri Hulme, Barbara Anderson, and Peter Wells. The selection provides an introduction to New Zealand short fiction that readers interestd in the new literatures in English will find stimulating and surprising. The stories are accompanied by brief biographical notes and a glossary of Maori words.
Download or read book Owls Do Cry written by Janet Frame and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post–war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to undergo a risky lobotomy. Margaret Drabble calls Owls Do Cry "a song of survival"—it is Daphne's song of survival but also the author's: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled for brain surgery. She was famously saved only when she won New Zealand's premier fiction prize. Frame was among the first major writers of the twentieth century to confront life in mental institutions and Owls Do Cry is important for this perspective. But it is equally valuable for its poetry, its incisive satire, and its acute social observations. A sensitively rendered portrait of childhood and adolescence and a testament to the power of imagination, this early novel is a first–rate example of Frame's powerful, lyric, and original prose.
Book Synopsis You have a Lot to Lose by : C. K. Stead
Download or read book You have a Lot to Lose written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman—poet, novelist, critic, activist. C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three. It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries, and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books—of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors. From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead's You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand's intellectual and cultural history.
Download or read book Joy of the Worm written by Frank Sargeson and published by Macgibbon & Kee. This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gifted written by Patrick Evans and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in 1955, the “father of New Zealand fiction” finds a young woman on his doorstep. A writer herself, she has recently emerged from a lengthy stay in the hospital for mental health problems and is seeking a safe place to live and write. The woman is Janet Frame, and the man who willingly takes her in is Frank Sargeson. Imaginative and intriguing, this novel explores two famous New Zealand personalities through a fictionalized account of the time they spent living together.
Book Synopsis The Stories of Frank Sargeson by : Frank Sargeson
Download or read book The Stories of Frank Sargeson written by Frank Sargeson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-seven magnificent stories from the master of the short story form, including: Conversation with my Uncle, The Last War, An Affair of the Heart and That Summer.
Download or read book Man Alone written by John Mulgan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Man of England Now by : Frank Sargeson
Download or read book Man of England Now written by Frank Sargeson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wrestling with the Angel by : Michael King
Download or read book Wrestling with the Angel written by Michael King and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author. Her early life in small South Island towns seemed, at times, engulfed in a tide of doom: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure while swimming; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade. Later, her surviving sister was temporarily felled in adulthood by a stroke, an uncle cut his throat and a cousin shot his lover, his lover's parents and then himself. This, then, is an inspiring biography of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time. And to enable her biographer to write this book scrupulously and honestly, Janet Frame spoke for the first time about her whole life. She also made available her personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally communicative. The result is a biography of astonishing intimacy and frankness, written by multi-award-winning author, Dr Michael King.
Book Synopsis The Mirror Book by : Charlotte Grimshaw
Download or read book The Mirror Book written by Charlotte Grimshaw and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved into her memories, the more the real characters in her life seemed to object. So what was the truth of 'a whole life lived in fiction'? This is a vivid account of a New Zealand upbringing, where rebellion was encouraged, where trouble and tragedy lay ahead. It looks beyond the public face to the 'messy reality of family life - and much more'."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis I Saw in My Dream by : Frank Sargeson
Download or read book I Saw in My Dream written by Frank Sargeson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of growing up in New Zealand at a time when a decaying Puritanism confined the human spirit in a prison of prohibitions.
Book Synopsis Frank Sargeson, a Life by : Michael King
Download or read book Frank Sargeson, a Life written by Michael King and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Sargeson (1903-82) was the first major New Zealand writer to remain in New Zealand. From the 1930s, he turned New Zealand writing in a new direction, publishing short stories that 'moulded the language and rhythm of everyday New Zealand speech into a literary form' and won acclaim throughout the English-speaking world. Born in Hamilton, where his father was a leader in the Methodist Church, Sargeson qualified as a solicitor, travelled to Britain and Europe, then spent nearly two years on an uncle's King Country farm before establishing himself as a writer on Auckland's North Shore in 1931. Sargeson was a man of contradictions. At times quarrelsome and even malicious, he was also generous and deeply compassionate as a mentor to younger writers, notably Janet Frame, and in caring for social derelicts. He was unflinchingly honest about most things, yet every aspect of his life and writing was touched by the need to conceal his homosexuality and a traumatic court case which arose from it.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature by : Roger Robinson
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature written by Roger Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature' contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements and professional organizations.
Book Synopsis Another 100 NZ Short Short Stories by : Graeme Lay
Download or read book Another 100 NZ Short Short Stories written by Graeme Lay and published by Tandem Press Publishers. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from '100 NZ Short Short Stories' (1997), another competition for mini-fiction (500 words) was held, attracting 800 entries; 100 of them are presented here, including work from young and previously unpublished writers, and from more well known writers. Notes on the contributors are included.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
