Research Catalog

Title

Ronald Hugh Morrieson : a biography / Julia Millen.

Author

Millen, Julia.

Publication

Birkenhead, Auckland : David Ling Pub., 1996.

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Description

246 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"... Writer, musician, music teacher, Morrieson was also known as a drunken bum, a wastrel, a womaniser and a spiv. He played bass in dance bands and drank in pubs around south Taranaki and this became the material for his writing. He lived with his mother and died depressed and impoverished in the house where he was born; he rarely left his home town, Hawera, south Taranaki. In life as in literature he was an original, and a mystery. ..."--Back cover.

Subject

• Morrieson, Ronald Hugh, 1922-1972 > Biography
• 1900-1999
• Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Girl Guides could control this burg -- 1. The sound of scales and arpeggios -- 2. The tower -- 3. Mother's boy! -- 4. Evil passions -- 5. Heroes -- 6. Trouble -- 7. The whole truth -- 8. Low life -- 9. Slapsy Morrieson -- 10. Let the good times roll -- 11. Only no good bums ever play any good -- 12. Ain't misbehavin' -- 13. Boyhood can seem a long way off -- 14. Wrestling with writing -- 15. Revenge -- 16. A weird and wonderful set-up -- 17. The chaos of letting go -- 18. One of those poor buggers -- 19. Nobody knows you when you're down and out -- Conclusion: Episode closed?

ISBN

0908990421

LCCN

^^^97138691^

OCLC

• 36901107
• SCSB-11933942

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library