Research Catalog

Title

Yin & tonic : comic writing / by Renée.

Author

Renée, 1929-

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 1998.

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Holdings

Details

Description

151 p.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Yin and tonic

Subject

• New Zealand > Humor
• New Zealand > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
• New Zealand wit and humor > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Anecdotes.
• Humor
• Humor.
• New Zealand wit and humor – 20th century.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

How's your day been? -- Gnome away from gnome; or, My little green gnome in the west -- Memories are made of this -- Cooking with Renée I -- To tell or not to tell, that is the answer -- Gardening with Renée I -- You too can be well developed -- You say emotional, I say emotional -- Cooking with Renée II -- New Zealand's greatest pastime -- For whom the iron steams -- Real women -- Eating out -- Touring -- Apostrophe's -- That's not Portland Island Lighthouse, darling, it's moi! -- Making the pizza -- On hearing poems read in a pub one Thursday night -- Pigeon or pear? -- New Year's revolutions I -- What did he mean to you? -- Dear Publisher -- Gardening with Renée II -- The day Ernie nearly lost his wife -- When I'm grown up -- Talk's cheap -- Gardening with Renée III -- Homophobia on the range -- Facts of life for lezzies -- You just don't understand -- Best friends? -- Ladies and gentlemen -- New Year's revolutions II -- The sound of music -- Et tu, Brute -- Constance Spry and I -- Camping -- The good old days -- An hour with -- A fairy story for baby dykes -- Just popped in to cheer you up -- To my two lost kilos wherever you are -- Housework with Renée I -- Changing the clocks -- Why I like Auckland (Well hush my mouth!) -- The day Mrs Ernie nearly went blind -- Pet accessories -- New Year's revolutions III -- The night Mrs Ernie went 10 no trumps -- Travelling with Renée -- Is it me? -- Housework with Renée II -- When I tell you I've got breast cancer.

ISBN

186941358X

LCCN

^^2002421412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library