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All the way to summer : stories of love and longing / Fiona Kidman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Auckland, New Zealand] : Vintage, 2020.Description: 362 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780143773658
  • 0143773658
  • 9780143773665
  • 0143773666
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 23
Contents:
Circling. Circling to your left -- Hats -- Red bell -- Longing. The honey frame -- Mrs Dixon & friend -- A needle in the heart -- Awry. Fragrance rising -- Tell me the truth about love -- Marvellous eight -- As it was. All the way to summer -- Silver-tongued -- Silks -- Stippled.
Summary: "Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s, and she has since continued to tell the realities of women's lives, her books resonating with many readers over the years and across the world. To mark her 80th birthday, this volume brings together a variety of her previously published stories as well as several that are new or previously uncollected; all moving, insightful and written with love. The final stories trace her own history of love, a memoir of significant people from childhood and beyond"--Publisher information.
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Circling. Circling to your left -- Hats -- Red bell -- Longing. The honey frame -- Mrs Dixon & friend -- A needle in the heart -- Awry. Fragrance rising -- Tell me the truth about love -- Marvellous eight -- As it was. All the way to summer -- Silver-tongued -- Silks -- Stippled.

"Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s, and she has since continued to tell the realities of women's lives, her books resonating with many readers over the years and across the world. To mark her 80th birthday, this volume brings together a variety of her previously published stories as well as several that are new or previously uncollected; all moving, insightful and written with love. The final stories trace her own history of love, a memoir of significant people from childhood and beyond"--Publisher information.

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