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The Oxford book of New Zealand short stories / selected by Vincent O'Sullivan.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Auckland ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.Description: xii, 450 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195582918 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.0108993 20
LOC classification:
  • PR9637.32 .O94 1994
Contents:
From Christmas Day in New Zealand / Lady Barker -- Married for his money / Clara Cheeseman -- One Lady at Wairakei / Rudyard Kipling -- Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill) / Henry Lawson -- Hantock's Dissertation / G. B. Lancaster -- The wind blows ; An indiscreet journey / Katherine Mansfield -- The perfect mother / Jean Devanny -- Home front / Greville Texidor -- A great day / Frank Sargeson -- Old man's story / Frank Sargeson -- Another kind of life / Roderick Finlayson -- Coming and going / Dan Davin -- School picnic / A. P. Gaskell -- A Dalmatian woman / Amelia Batistich -- A Girl with ambition / G. R. Gilbert -- Along Rideout Road that summer / Maurice Duggan -- Cross my heart and cut my throat / Ronald Hugh Morrieson -- The reservoir ; The bath / Janet Frame -- Up the river with Mrs Gallant / Barbara Anderson -- One of the Titans / Renato Amato -- Corrective training / Noel Hilliard -- The morning talk / Yvonne du Fresne -- A glorious morning, Comrade / Maurice Gee --
-- The People before / Maurice Shadbolt -- A New Zealand Elegy / C. K. Stead -- An opinion of the ballet / Alexander Guyan -- Fog / Russell Haley -- The Silk / Joy Cowley -- Journey ; Between earth and sky / Patricia Grace -- Dandy Edison for lunch / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Crocodile / Albert Wendt -- The tennis player / Fiona Kidman -- Valley day / Owen Marshall -- Mumsie and Zip / Owen Marshall -- Jack Kerouac sat down beside the Wanganui River and wept / Michael Morrissey -- Big brother, little sister / Witi Ihimaera -- The poet's wife / Bill Manhire -- The gringos / Ian Wedde -- Jim's Elvis / Colleen Reilly -- One whale, singing / Keri Hulme -- The gift / Fiona Farrell -- Outing / Peter Wells -- Archaeology / John Cranna -- Who's that dancing with my mother? / Lloyd Jones -- The wife who spoke Japanese in her sleep / Vivienne Plumb -- A veil dropped from a great height / Anne Kennedy -- Baby Clare / Anthony McCarten.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PR9637.32 .O94 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000550557

Originally published: 1992.

Includes biographical notes (p. 441-449).

Includes a Glossary of Maori and Samoan Words (p. 450).

From Christmas Day in New Zealand / Lady Barker -- Married for his money / Clara Cheeseman -- One Lady at Wairakei / Rudyard Kipling -- Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill) / Henry Lawson -- Hantock's Dissertation / G. B. Lancaster -- The wind blows ; An indiscreet journey / Katherine Mansfield -- The perfect mother / Jean Devanny -- Home front / Greville Texidor -- A great day / Frank Sargeson -- Old man's story / Frank Sargeson -- Another kind of life / Roderick Finlayson -- Coming and going / Dan Davin -- School picnic / A. P. Gaskell -- A Dalmatian woman / Amelia Batistich -- A Girl with ambition / G. R. Gilbert -- Along Rideout Road that summer / Maurice Duggan -- Cross my heart and cut my throat / Ronald Hugh Morrieson -- The reservoir ; The bath / Janet Frame -- Up the river with Mrs Gallant / Barbara Anderson -- One of the Titans / Renato Amato -- Corrective training / Noel Hilliard -- The morning talk / Yvonne du Fresne -- A glorious morning, Comrade / Maurice Gee --

-- The People before / Maurice Shadbolt -- A New Zealand Elegy / C. K. Stead -- An opinion of the ballet / Alexander Guyan -- Fog / Russell Haley -- The Silk / Joy Cowley -- Journey ; Between earth and sky / Patricia Grace -- Dandy Edison for lunch / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Crocodile / Albert Wendt -- The tennis player / Fiona Kidman -- Valley day / Owen Marshall -- Mumsie and Zip / Owen Marshall -- Jack Kerouac sat down beside the Wanganui River and wept / Michael Morrissey -- Big brother, little sister / Witi Ihimaera -- The poet's wife / Bill Manhire -- The gringos / Ian Wedde -- Jim's Elvis / Colleen Reilly -- One whale, singing / Keri Hulme -- The gift / Fiona Farrell -- Outing / Peter Wells -- Archaeology / John Cranna -- Who's that dancing with my mother? / Lloyd Jones -- The wife who spoke Japanese in her sleep / Vivienne Plumb -- A veil dropped from a great height / Anne Kennedy -- Baby Clare / Anthony McCarten.

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