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The name on the door is not mine : stories new & selected / C.K. Stead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, New Zealand Allen & Unwin 2016.Description: 302 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781877505812
  • 1877505811
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.208 23
Contents:
A small apartment in the rue Parrot -- 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' -- 'And still the sun shines' -- True love -- Sex in America -- Anxiety -- A fitting tribute -- Marriage Americano -- Determined things to Destiny -- Last season's man -- Class, race, gender: a post-colonial yarn -- The name on the door is not mine.
Summary: "The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and includes a number of new, previously unpublished stories, including &#x;Last Season&#x;s Man&#x;, which won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, as well as older stories that have been revised and rewritten. Set in locations as diverse as the South of France, Sydney, Zagreb, Auckland, San Francisco and Oxford, each story is vividly drawn and stays with you long after reading"--Publisher information.
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Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Non-Fiction Non Fiction 823.208 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00657009

A small apartment in the rue Parrot -- 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' -- 'And still the sun shines' -- True love -- Sex in America -- Anxiety -- A fitting tribute -- Marriage Americano -- Determined things to Destiny -- Last season's man -- Class, race, gender: a post-colonial yarn -- The name on the door is not mine.

"The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and includes a number of new, previously unpublished stories, including &#x;Last Season&#x;s Man&#x;, which won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, as well as older stories that have been revised and rewritten. Set in locations as diverse as the South of France, Sydney, Zagreb, Auckland, San Francisco and Oxford, each story is vividly drawn and stays with you long after reading"--Publisher information.

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