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Essential New Zealand short stories / selected by Owen Marshall.

Kaituhi: Momo rauemi: TextTextKaiwhakaputa:Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 2009.Edition: Updated edWhakaahuatanga: 468 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781869791285
Tētahi atu taitaia:
  • Short stories
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.0108 22
Contents:
Introduction / Owen Marshall -- The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield -- A man of good will / Frank Sargeson -- Home front / Greville Texidor -- The big game / A. P. Gaskell -- The quiet one / Dan Davin -- Old Tolly / E. S. Grenfell -- After the depression / Maurice Shadbolt -- Blues for Miss Laverty / Maurice Duggan -- A leopard yarn / David Ballantyne -- The doss-house and the duchess / O. E. Middleton -- The silk / Joy Cowley -- The mace / Philip Mincher -- A game of cards / Witi Ihimaera -- A glorious morning, comrade / Maurice Gee -- Cross my heart and cut my throat / Ronald Hugh Morrieson -- The dead bush / Michael Henderson -- Kiteflying party at Doctors' Point / Keri Hulme -- Big Jim Cook and the wheel of God / Chris Else -- Insulation / Janet Frame -- Dogman, bushman / Norman Bilbrough -- The pictures / Patricia Grace -- Jack Kerouac sat down beside the Wanganui River and wept / Michael Morrissey -- The gringos / Ian Wedde -- The wheeler's jewel / Bub Bridger -- Airmen / Fiona Farrell -- Broad sunlit uplands / Craig Harrison -- Crocodile / Albert Wendt -- Cinnamon toast / Shonagh Koea -- Hats / Fiona Kidman -- Up the river with Mrs Gallant / Barbara Anderson -- Burning boats / Rosie Scott -- Mirimiri / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Putting Bob down / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Who's that dancing with my mother? / Lloyd Jones -- The rule of Jenny Pen / Owen Marshall -- The wife who spoke Japanese in her sleep / Vivienne Plumb -- Outing / Peter Wells -- A short history of New Zealand / C. K. Stead -- Oilskin / Chad Taylor -- A place where no one knows your face / Emily Perkins -- The spare room / Judith White -- The national school of beauty therapy / Sue McCauley -- North Sea / Rowan Metcalfe -- My father running with a dead boy / Carl Nixon -- They / Christine Johnston -- Transportation / Sarah Quigley -- Truthful lies -- Frankie McMillan -- Stories / Charlotte Grimshaw -- Necropolis / Eleanor Catton -- Copies / Craig Cliff -- Bibliography/Acknowledgements.
Summary: "First published in 2002, this collection features in its updated edition five new stories from writers who excel at a magnificent national genre: perfectly formed and polished stories"-- Back cover.
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Previous ed.: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-468).

Introduction / Owen Marshall -- The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield -- A man of good will / Frank Sargeson -- Home front / Greville Texidor -- The big game / A. P. Gaskell -- The quiet one / Dan Davin -- Old Tolly / E. S. Grenfell -- After the depression / Maurice Shadbolt -- Blues for Miss Laverty / Maurice Duggan -- A leopard yarn / David Ballantyne -- The doss-house and the duchess / O. E. Middleton -- The silk / Joy Cowley -- The mace / Philip Mincher -- A game of cards / Witi Ihimaera -- A glorious morning, comrade / Maurice Gee -- Cross my heart and cut my throat / Ronald Hugh Morrieson -- The dead bush / Michael Henderson -- Kiteflying party at Doctors' Point / Keri Hulme -- Big Jim Cook and the wheel of God / Chris Else -- Insulation / Janet Frame -- Dogman, bushman / Norman Bilbrough -- The pictures / Patricia Grace -- Jack Kerouac sat down beside the Wanganui River and wept / Michael Morrissey -- The gringos / Ian Wedde -- The wheeler's jewel / Bub Bridger -- Airmen / Fiona Farrell -- Broad sunlit uplands / Craig Harrison -- Crocodile / Albert Wendt -- Cinnamon toast / Shonagh Koea -- Hats / Fiona Kidman -- Up the river with Mrs Gallant / Barbara Anderson -- Burning boats / Rosie Scott -- Mirimiri / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Putting Bob down / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Who's that dancing with my mother? / Lloyd Jones -- The rule of Jenny Pen / Owen Marshall -- The wife who spoke Japanese in her sleep / Vivienne Plumb -- Outing / Peter Wells -- A short history of New Zealand / C. K. Stead -- Oilskin / Chad Taylor -- A place where no one knows your face / Emily Perkins -- The spare room / Judith White -- The national school of beauty therapy / Sue McCauley -- North Sea / Rowan Metcalfe -- My father running with a dead boy / Carl Nixon -- They / Christine Johnston -- Transportation / Sarah Quigley -- Truthful lies -- Frankie McMillan -- Stories / Charlotte Grimshaw -- Necropolis / Eleanor Catton -- Copies / Craig Cliff -- Bibliography/Acknowledgements.

"First published in 2002, this collection features in its updated edition five new stories from writers who excel at a magnificent national genre: perfectly formed and polished stories"-- Back cover.

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