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Talking About O'Dwyer
C. K. Stead
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Hardcover. What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? Half a century later, two Oxford dons attend the funeral of expatriate New Zealander O'Dwyer, and one reveals that O'Dwyer spent his life haunted by a secret Maori curse. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 460. "What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? Half a century later, two Oxford dons attend the funeral of expatriate New Zealander O'Dwyer, and one reveals that O'Dwyer spent his life haunted by a secret Maori curse. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 460. Fine in dustwrapper"
In his new bachelor flat, too close for comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past. When O'Dwyer, his colleague and follow expatriate New Zealander dies, Newall attends the funeral, and learns a secret about O'Dwyer.
In his new bachelor flat, too close for comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past. When O'Dwyer, his colleague and follow expatriate New Zealander dies, Newall attends the funeral, and learns a secret about O'Dwyer.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Harvill Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860467103
SKU
KTJ0050303
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Ref
99-1
About C. K. Stead
C.K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland until 1986. He is known among students of literature as the author of The New Poetic, a study of Yeats, Eliot and the Georgian poets. He is the only New Zealand writer to have won the New Zealand Book Award for both poetry and fiction, winning twice for the ... Read more
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