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Title: |
South West of Eden |
| Sub-title: |
A Memoir, 1932–1956 |
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| By (author): |
C. K. Stead |
| ISBN10-13: |
1869404548 : 9781869404543 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Weight: |
.517 Kg. |
| Published: |
Auckland University Press - May 2010 |
| List Price: |
35.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
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| â I said many times I would not write autobiography â 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.â â C. K. Stead Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C. K. Stead has changed his mind. In South-West of Eden, a coming-of-age memoir by New Zealandâ s leading poet, novelist and critic, Stead writes of a life â lived by historyâ â running wild in Cornwall Park, joining the Labour Party aged seven, discovering poetry in a third-form English class and enjoying a newly married annus mirabilis in a flat on Takapuna Beach down the road from Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame. An Aucklander to the core â â Most things of real significance in my life and the life of my family had happened somewhere in sight from the summit of Mt Edenâ â Stead here turns his home town into a land of myth and symbol: â Tamaki of many lovers, portage for ancient waka, wasp-waist of the fish of Maui, site of a PÄ kehÄ -planned and never built coast-to-coast canal and of the harbour-to-harbour ghost-tram, no longer running except in the head of an elderly writer, late in the night, remembering at his laptop.â In a virtuoso performance, C. K. Stead wonderfully illuminates 23 years of his time and his place. |
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