Letters of Frank Sargeson
Letters of Frank Sargeson

Author: Sarah Shieff

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2012-02-03

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 186979334X

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A rich and riveting record of both literary and social value. Frank Sargeson is one of New Zealand's best-loved and most important writers. Besides the ground-breaking short stories, he wrote memoirs, novels, and plays. He encouraged at least three generations of younger writers and, for most of his adult life, the famous bach behind the hedge at 14 Esmonde Road was at the heart of New Zealand's artistic and literary world. Sargeson was also a prolific letter writer, and this selection of 500 of the most fascinating ranges over half a century, from 1927 to 1981. The letters are immensely readable, vividly capturing his life and times, his milieu and his personality. Frank loved gossip, could be bitchy and peevish, but also kind, affectionate, funny, ribald, astute. This collection, selected, edited and annotated by Sarah Shieff, is a document of extraordinary significance for all those interested in New Zealand's literary and social history.

Picking Up the Traces
Picking Up the Traces

Author: Lawrence Jones

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780864734556

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The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.

No Fretful Sleeper
No Fretful Sleeper

Author: Paul Millar

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1775581314

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Outlining the career of one of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, this fascinating narrative details the life and work of Bill Pearson. Beginning with his difficult childhood in a society dominated by the New Zealand working man, this gripping biography follows Pearson through his long and distinguished academic career, the penning of his one major and celebrated novel, and his momentous decision to trade a dental career for World War II combat. Touching on his time in London and the native &“fretful sleepers,&” this engrossing account is emblematic of the intellectual culture, left-wing politics, and growing acceptance of both homosexual identity and Maori and Pacific Island culture in 20th-century New Zealand.

Never a Soul at Home
Never a Soul at Home

Author: Stuart Murray

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780864733412

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The generation of writers that came to prominence in the 1930s laid down the framework for modern New Zealand literature. This book looks at the beginnings of those writers' careers, at the influences of events like the Depression and the onset of war, and at the role of cultural institutions. Ultimately, it is about the myths that surround the 1930s writers, and the myths they made.

Frank Sargeson
Frank Sargeson

Author: R. A. Copland

Publisher: Wellington ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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" ... Frank Sargeson ... was one of the first writers to search for an 'appropriate language to deal with the material of New Zealand life.' Breaking away from a puritan heritage, he early abandoned a formal career for a brief period of travel in Europe, only to return to his native country with the knowlkedge that there, for bgetter or worse, he belonged. For years he has worked ... producing short stories, novels, and autobiographical essays ... His handling of language and the invention of his plots, in works such as 'That Summer', Memoirs of a Peon, and Once is Enough, have been a unique contribution to the emergence of a specifically New Zealand literature."--Back cover.

To Bed at Noon
To Bed at Noon

Author: Ian Richards

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1775582213

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This volume examines the life and work of New Zealand author Maurice Duggan. His life was turbulent and difficult as he suffered from a "black Irish" personality, the lifelong trauma of an amputated leg, and battles with alcoholism, relationships and employment. This biography looks at the complexity of his life and offers a picture of literary life in New Zealand, and especially Auckland, in the 1950's and 1960's.

Kin of Place
Kin of Place

Author: C. K. Stead

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1775581004

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This collection of 28 critical essays provides provocative comment on the work of 20 New Zealand writers, including Elizabeth Knox, Katherine Mansfield, Kendrick Smithyman, Allen Curnow, and Janet Frame.