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Published by Auckland University Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 186940419XISBN 13: 9781869404192
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 380 pages. 'There is no place in normal New Zealand society f or the man who is different', wrote William Harrison (Bill) Pears on. One of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and s harpest critics, Pearson's life was also fraught with contradicti on and secrecy, largely because of his homosexuality. Born in Gre ymouth in 1922, he grew up in a society dominated by a rugged ide al of New Zealand manhood; not an easy childhood or adolescence f or an unusually sensitive boy who preferred intellectual pursuits to sports. He went to university and Dunedin Training College, t hen taught at Blackball School - a period from which he drew the material for his celebrated novel, Coal Flat. After serving in th e Second World War he received his PhD from the University of Lon don - where distance gave him a clear critical perspective on thi s country of 'fretful sleepers' - then returned to New Zealand as a scholar and lecturer, writer and editor. Bill Pearson's life i s emblematic of vital elements in twentieth-century New Zealand s ociety: intellectual culture, left-wing politics and the growing acceptance of homosexual identity and Maori and Pacific Island cu lture. Paul Millar has written a fascinating biography of a man s entenced by his times to a life of unwilling concealment - a man who yet became a courageous non-conformist, awake to the vulnerab ility of his society's freedoms.
Published by Auckland Univ Pr, 2010
ISBN 10: 186940419XISBN 13: 9781869404192
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Published by AUCKLAND UNIV PR, 2010
ISBN 10: 186940419XISBN 13: 9781869404192
Seller: Buchpark, Trebbin, Germany
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Condition: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 400 | Sprache: Englisch.