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

Title: The Oxford book of New Zealand short stories / selected by Vincent O'Sullivan.
Publication: Auckland ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PR9637.32 .O94 1994	Off-site

Additional Authors

O'Sullivan, Vincent

Description

xii, 450 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

New Zealand short stories.

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction

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Processing Action (note)

Contents

From Christmas Day in New Zealand -- Married for his money -- One lady at Wairakei -- Stiffner and Jim (thirdly, Bill) -- Hantock's dissertation -- The wind blows -- An indiscreet journey -- The perfect mother -- Home front -- A great day --Old man's story -- Another kind of life -- Coming and going -- School picnic -- A dalmatian woman -- A girl with ambition -- Along rideout road that summer -- Cross my heart and cut my throat -- The reservoiur -- The bath -- Up the river with Mrs. Gallant -- One of the Titans -- Corrective training -- The morning talk -- A glorious morning, comrade.
The people before -- A New Zealand elegy -- An opinion of the ballet -- Fog -- The silk -- Journey -- Between earth and sky -- Dandy Edison for lunch -- Crocodile -- The tennis player -- Valley day -- Mumsie and Zip -- Jack Kerouac sat down beside the Wanganui River and wept -- Big brother, little sister -- The poet's wife -- The gringos -- Jim's Elvis -- One whale, singing -- The gift -- Outing -- Archaeology -- Who's that dancing with my mother? -- The wife who spoke Japanese in her sleep -- A veil dropped from a Great Height -- Baby Clare.

ISBN

0195582918 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94148963^

OCLC

30628466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library