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Stead, C. K.

 
9781860468360: Talking About O'Dwyer
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1860468365 ISBN 13 : 9781860468360
Editeur : The Harvill Press, 2002

Synopsis

What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldier's family place a curse on O'Dwyer, the officer who was his commander at the time he died? Half a century later two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend the funeral of their colleague O'Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals to Winterstoke the story of the curse placed on O'Dwyer during the war and, in the days that follow, he continues the tales of O'Dwyer and his 'cursed' life. Slowly the stories of Newall, another New Zealander in self-enforced exile, and of Winterstoke are also revealed in Stead's complex and subtle narrative which shifts across time and space from New Zealand to Oxford to Croatia and to Crete at the time of the allied defeat there.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldier’s family place a curse on O’Dwyer, the officer who was his commander at the time he died? Half a century later two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend the funeral of their colleague O’Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals to Winterstoke the story of the curse placed on O’Dwyer during the war and, in the days that follow, he continues the tales of O’Dwyer and his ‘cursed’ life. Slowly the stories of Newall, another New Zealander in self-enforced exile, and of Winterstoke are also revealed in Stead’s complex and subtle narrative which shifts across time and space from New Zealand to Oxford to Croatia and to Crete at the time of the allied defeat there.

Biographie de l'auteur

C.K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is well known both among students of literature for his superb study of Yeats, Eliot and the Georgian Poets, The New Poetic, and among readers of contemporary writing for his eight novels. He is the only New Zealand writer to have won the New Zealand Book Award for both poetry and fiction, winning twice for the novels All Visitors Ashore and The Singing Whakapapa. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1974 he was awarded the C.B.E. for services to New Zealand literature.

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Éditeur
The Harvill Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1860468365
ISBN 13 
9781860468360
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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