Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Auckland, New Zealand ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

O'Sullivan, Vincent

Description

xii, 387 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• New Zealand short stories
• New Zealand short stories.
• Short stories

Subject

• Johannes Stobaeus ca. 5. Jh
• New Zealand
• New Zealand fiction
• Short stories
• Short stories, New Zealand

Genre/Form

• Short stories
• Short stories.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Christmas day in New Zealand / Lady Barker (1831-1911) -- Married for his money / Clara Cheeseman (1852-1943) -- One lady at Wairakei / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Stiffner and Jim (thirdly, Bill) / Henry Lawson (1867-1922) -- Hantock's dissertation / G.B. Lancaster (1873-1945) -- The wind blows -- An indiscreet journey / Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) -- The perfect mother / Jean Devanny (1894-1962) -- Home front / Greville Texidor (1902-1964) -- A great day -- Old man's story / Frank Sargeson (1902-1982) -- Another kind of life / Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992) -- Coming and going / Dan Davin (1913-1990) -- School picnic / A.P. Gaskell (b. 1913) -- A dalmatian woman / Amelia Batistich (b. 1915) -- A girl with ambition / G.R. Gilbert (b. 1917) -- Along Rideout Road that Summer / Maurice Duggan (1922-1974).
• Cross my heart and cut my throat / Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922-1972) -- The reservoir -- The bath / Janet Frame (b. 1924) -- Up the river with Mrs. Gallant / Barbara Anderson (b. 1926) -- One of the Titans / Renato Amato (1928-1964) -- Corrective training / Noel Hilliard (b. 1929) -- Morning talk / Yvonne du Fresne (b. 1929) -- A glorious morning, comrade / Maurice Gee (b. 1931) -- The people before / Maurice Shadbolt (b. 1932) -- A New Zealand elegy / C.K. Stead (b. 1932) -- An opinion of the ballet / Alexander Guyan (1933-1991) -- Fog / Russell Haley (b. 1937) The silk / Joy Crowley (b. 1936) -- Journey -- Between earth and sky / Patricia Grace (b. 1937) -- Dandy Edison for lunch / Vincent O'Sullivan (b. 1937)-- Crocodile / Albert Wendt (b. 1939) -- Valley day -- Mumsie and Zip / Owen Marshall (b. 1941).
• Jack Kerouac sat down beside the Wanganui River and wept / Michael Morissey (b. 1942) -- Big brother, little sister / Witi Ihimaera (b. 1944) -- The poet's wife / Bill Manhire (b. 1946) -- The gringos / Ian Wedde (b. 1946) -- Jim's Elvis / Colleen Reilly (b. 1946) -- One whale, singing / Keri Hulme (b. 1947) -- The gift / Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) -- Outing / Peter Wells (b. 1953) -- Archaeology / John Cranna (b. 1955) / Who's that dancing with my mother? / Lloyd Jones (b. 1955) -- The wife who spoke Japanese in her sleep / Vivienne Plumb (b. 1955) -- A veil dropped from a great height / Anne Kennedy (b. 1959)-- Baby Clare / Anthony McCarten (b. 1961).

ISBN

• 0195582527 (hbk.)
• 0195582519 (pbk.)

LCCN

gb^93035151^

OCLC

27762580

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library