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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.
Book Synopsis Some Other Country by : Marion McLeod
Download or read book Some Other Country written by Marion McLeod and published by Williams Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The country to be found in these pages is not the place depicted in glossy picture books or economic profiles. But it is a real place, composed of that blend of accuracy and vision which only the imagination, committed to language and experience, can supply. It is the New Zealand of Janet Frame and Katherine Mansfield, of Dan Davin and Frank Sargeson, of Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace." "Some other Country is a collection of stories selected from the body of New Zealand writing that began with the work of the young expatriate writer, Katherine Mansfield. This updated edition begins in 1922 and ends with a story published in 1990. It includes recent work by Vincent O'Sullivan, Owen Marshall and Keri Hulme and stories by newer writers such as Barbara Anderson and John Cranna, alongside well-known stories by Joy Cowley, C.K. Stead and James Courage. It represents the editor's choice of simply 'the best we could find'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Like Wallpaper written by Barbara Else and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of New Zealand short stories especially for teenagers. Being a teenager is arguably the most intense time in anybody's life. It's a powerful, highly concentrated time when small things can seem insuperable but huge things are often accomplished without effort. The writers of the twenty stories gathered in this anthology have all been there, done that. One is in fact still there, going through the teenage years herself. Each story here reflects an aspect of what it is to be a teenager in NZ. The settings are New Zealand homes and flats, local schools and roads, beaches, rivers, cities. But in another sense each piece is universal. Issues addressed in the stories range across aspects of peer pressure and friendship. Parents and family relationships feature as do young romance, sexuality, and death. There is a mixture of tone, voice and form. The writers include Jane Westaway, David Hill and Fleur Beale as well as some stunning newcomers such as Natasha Lewis and Samantha Stanley. This book isn't just for people from thirteen to nineteen years old. It offers twenty ways to understand and relive those very particular times of exuberance, turmoil and adventure.
Author :Katherine Mansfield Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1775535002 Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (755 download)
Book Synopsis New Zealand Stories by : Katherine Mansfield
Download or read book New Zealand Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories from the ‘brilliant’ Katherine Mansfield set in New Zealand. As Vincent O’Sullivan states, those encountering Mansfield’s stories for the first time have invariably found they ‘were alive, they were witty, they were moving, they covered new ground’. But with about 70 stories to choose from and a vast array of themes and approaches, where do you start, and how do you begin to understand and best appreciate her writing and achievements? This series features selections of her best stories, grouped by subject and introduced by Mansfield scholar Vincent O’Sullivan, who is also a writer of fiction in his own right. Each volume offers a different way to view Mansfield’s work. This selection includes her most-loved stories about the New Zealand of her childhood. As O'Sullivan explains, his choices cover ‘everything of importance that happened to her, that she observed and experienced, between childhood in Wellington’s wooden houses, to her deciding in Switzerland in July 1922, that her final paragraph about a singing bird was the place for her to stop’. Other titles in the MANSFIELD SELECTIONS series: In Bavaria: ISBN 978-1-77553-498-3 Marriage & Families: ISBN 978-1-77553-501-0 Sex & Lies: ISBN 978-1-77553-499-0 Women Alone: ISBN 978-1-77553-502-7
Book Synopsis Black Marks on the White Page by : Witi Ihimaera
Download or read book Black Marks on the White Page written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and aesthetically exciting, these stories expand our sense of what is possible in Indigenous Oceanic writing. Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti present the very best new and uncollected stories and novel excerpts, creating a talanoa, a conversation, where the stories do the talking. And because our commonalities are more stimulating than our differences, the anthology also includes guest work from an Aboriginal Australian writer, and several visual artists whose work speaks to similar kaupapa. Join us as we deconstruct old theoretical maps and allow these fresh Black Marks on the White Page to expand our perception of the Pacific world.
Book Synopsis Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by : Christina Thompson
Download or read book Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All written by Christina Thompson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounter 'A highly unusual blend of personal memoir, travel writing and anthropology' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'This book stands out because of its sharp, fine writing ... strong and compulsive' New Statesman _______________________________ Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An intimate account of two centuries of friction and fascination, this intriguing and unpredictable book weaves a path through time and around the world in a rich exploration of the past and the future that it leads to.
Download or read book The Third Century written by Graeme Lay and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Century is a tasty little number that will whet your appetite for more New Zealand writing.' Northern Advocate 'Many of these stories are so densely and cleverly written, you'll want to read them more than once.' The Dominion About the Author Graeme Lay was born in Foxton, in the Horowhenua, grew up in Taranaki and was educated at Victoria University of Wellington. Since the 1970s he has lived on Auckland's North Shore, where he is a full-time writer. Two of his young adult novels, Leaving One Foot Island and Return to One Foot Island, were finalists in the NZ Post Children's Book Awards, and he has twice been a finalist in the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year Award. Married with three adult children, Graeme Lay is also secretary of the Frank Sargeson Trust. His other interests are reading, travel, photography and the sea.
Download or read book The Author's Cut written by Owen Marshall and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by the author from his thirteen previous collections, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they probe our national psyche with clear-eyed insight. This selection from a long career ranges across New Zealand and ventures overseas; the pieces explore both cruelty and love; they look back to childhood and also capture the world we live in today. Full of unexpected turns, lyrical writing, wry observations and intriguing plots, this sampling offers a provocative take on New Zealand. `I very much envy his ability to lay things down in such a way that each one has its natural weight and place, without any straining and heaving.' - Maurice Gee, Sport 'Owen Marshall has established himself as one of the masters of the short story' - Livres Hebdo, Paris
Download or read book Electric City written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. Thirteen stories in which the joys of discovery are tempered by the knowledge of a harder, colder world. Sunlight, childhood and nature set against conflict and misunderstanding, in the ever-present shadows of the spirit of the land.
Download or read book Boys' Own Stories written by Graeme Lay and published by Becklyn Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning success of young women fiction writers in New Zealand in recent years has overshadowed the fact that young male fictioneers have also been busy writing quality short stories. Boys Own Stories is a collection of eighteen stories by male writers, all under the age of forty. It includes work by award winning short story writers such as Carl Nixon and Denis Baker, along with novelists like Peter Feeney and Chad Taylor. Selected by noted writer, editor and reviewer, Graeme Lay, Boys Own Stories shows that the art of short story writing is alive and well regardless of authorial gender and if there is a contest between the sexes, the boys are holding their own. The Authors Denis Baker, Andrei Baltakmens, William Brandt, Mark Broatch, James Brown, Peter Feeney, Michael Galvin, David Geary, Tim Jones, Phil Kawana, Zion A. Komene, John McCrystal, Carl Nixon, Rob O'Neill, Antonius Papaspiropoulos, Duncan Sarkies, Bernard Steeds and Chad Taylor.
Book Synopsis New Zealand Short Stories by : Dan Davin
Download or read book New Zealand Short Stories written by Dan Davin and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories by : Susan Davis
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories written by Susan Davis and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1989 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories some previously published.
Book Synopsis Small Holes in the Silence by : Patricia Grace
Download or read book Small Holes in the Silence written by Patricia Grace and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied: urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. The thread that runs through all the stories, though, is Grace's huge sympathy for the underdog and the perspective of the outsider. The world she depicts is often a stark and unsentimental place, in which people struggle against ageing, rejection, violence and betrayal.
Book Synopsis New Zealand Short Stories by : Olliver Noel Gillespie
Download or read book New Zealand Short Stories written by Olliver Noel Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dark Island by : Benjamin Kingsbury
Download or read book The Dark Island written by Benjamin Kingsbury and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbour, was the site of New Zealand’s leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution – an embarrassment to the Health Department, an object of pity to a few, a source of fear to many. This remarkable narrative reveals a little-known aspect of New Zealand’s past, shedding light on the treatment of some of society’s most marginal, unfortunate and isolated people. Written in lucid, compelling prose, The Dark Island heralds the arrival of a significant historical voice.
Book Synopsis The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by : Vincent O'Malley
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation’s history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Māori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual fighting. Physical remnants or reminders from these conflicts and their aftermath can be found all over the country, whether in central Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, or in more rural locations such as Te Pōrere or Te Awamutu. The wars are an integral part of the New Zealand story but we have not always cared to remember or acknowledge them. Today, however, interest in the wars is resurgent. Public figures are calling for the wars to be taught in all schools and a national day of commemoration was recently established. Following on from the best-selling The Great War for New Zealand, Vincent O'Malley's new book provides a highly accessible introduction to the causes, events and consequences of the New Zealand Wars. The text is supported by extensive full-colour illustrations as well as timelines, graphs and summary tables.
Book Synopsis STORY OF A NEW ZEALAND RIVER by : JANE. MANDER
Download or read book STORY OF A NEW ZEALAND RIVER written by JANE. MANDER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
