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14 produkter
Talking About O'Dwyer
Av C. K. Stead
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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In his new bachelor flat, too close to comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past.When Donovan O'Dwyer, his colleague and fellow expatriate New Zealander dies, Newall attends the …
All Visitors Ashore
Av C. K. Stead
E-bok, 2010
100 kr
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As their freinds leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna shoreline of …
My Name Was Judas
Av C. K. Stead
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas?In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Judas finally tells the story as he remembers it. Looking back on his childhood …
Death Of The Body
Av C. K. Stead
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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"Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschläger, Financial TimesProfessor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his problems. Harry's wife has turned his study into a …
Mansfield
A Novel
Av C. K. Stead
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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'A vivid and engrossing historical novel' Daily TelegraphSpanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, Mansfield follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' which she …
Secret History Of Modernism
Av C. K. Stead
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s. The Empire might be in a state of collapse, but for young 'colonials', England remains a mythical place that draws them from the farthest corners of the globe. There was Australian Samantha …
The Necessary Angel
Av C. K. Stead
Inbunden, 2018
177 kr
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Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself entangled with Helen, a troubled young English student. When a Cezanne painting goes missing from …
In the Half Light of a Dying Day
Catullus, 2023
Av C. K. Stead
Häftad, 2024
467 kr
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An old friend, a new character - C. K. Stead is scribe to love and grief in this beautiful new collection.In two sequences the poet plays with the lines of history and love, the fictional and the autobiographical. Reflecting on a long career and familiar faces, the first sequence walks the reader …
Chancy Now
120 Sonnets
Av C. K. Stead
Häftad, 2026
198 kr
Kommande
In the 1970s a young professor, I rescuedfrom a puddle in Princes Street a Penguinof Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, dried itand read it, annotating as I went, underlininghis thought that one must have chaos withinif one is to give birth to a dancing star –At 93, his wife Kay and son Oliver …
Death Of The Body
Av C. K. Stead
Häftad, 2013
203 kr
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"Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschläger, Financial TimesProfessor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his problems. Harry's wife has turned his study into a …
South West of Eden
A Memoir, 1932-1956
Av C K Stead
Inbunden, 2010
500 kr
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'I said many times I would not write autobiography - 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, …
Volume 3
A Memoir, 1987-2020
Av C. K. Stead
Inbunden, 2021
570 kr
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Having left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like Sister Hollywood and My Name Was Judas, criticism in the London Review of Books and the Financial Times, poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as …
Name on the Door is Not Mine
Av C. K. Stead
Häftad, 2016
201 kr
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Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humour evident at every turn.The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and …
This Side of Silence
Av C. K. Stead
Häftad, 2023
190 kr
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In this poignant new poetry collection, one of New Zealand’s most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. ‘I lead a life of quiet medication’, the poet claims, ‘longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.’ But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or …
