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South-West of Eden: A Memoir, 1932-1956
C. K. Stead
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Description for South-West of Eden: A Memoir, 1932-1956
Hardcover. In a virtuoso performance, C K Stead wonderfully illuminates 23 years of his time and his place. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 525.
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a ""signing off"" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised and without a passport, back and forth across that border, and prefers it should be unmarked and without check-points.' - C K Stead. Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C K Stead has changed his mind. ... Read more
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a ""signing off"" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised and without a passport, back and forth across that border, and prefers it should be unmarked and without check-points.' - C K Stead. Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C K Stead has changed his mind. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869404543
SKU
V9781869404543
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99-3
About C. K. Stead
From the late 1950s, the young C K Stead began to earn an international reputation as poet, literary critic - his book The New Poetic (1964) has sold over 100,0000 copies - and, later, as a novelist. In his long career he has published over 40 books and received numerous honours including, most recently, our highest honour the Order of ... Read more
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