| Description |
207 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Autobiographical. Pakeha New Zealander. Drinking and dissent. My island home. Birth diaries. Passions and paradise: my best year yet. The red heart. -- Literary. Queensland stories. Fear and loathing on the Queensland Writers' Train. The language of sex. Love and violence. Fiction and moral imagination. Warrior women: modern heroines. Jane Eyre: a holocaust of a childhood. Movie dreams: writing like a man. Low life, high art. Everything is a copy. The value of writers -- Political and social. Dangerous lies: the language of economic rationalism. Conjugal knots. The dark side of love. Friends. Reefer madness. Writing a revolution. Come and see the blood in the streets |
| Notes |
A collection of mostly commissioned essays, either written to be delivered as speeches at literary events, or for inclusion in anthologies |
| Subject |
Australian essays -- 20th century.
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Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century.
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Authorship.
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New Zealand essays -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
00002016 |
| ISBN |
1869413911 |
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