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The best of Albert Wendt's short stories.

Title
The best of Albert Wendt's short stories.
Author
Wendt, Albert, 1939-
Publication
Auckland : Random House New Zealand, 1999.

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Description
390 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Albert Wendt, the award-winning Samoan author, is acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. His short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific, and internationally. This new collection brings together his classic stories published in the 'Flying-fox in a Freedom Tree' (1974) and the 'Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories' (1986), together with previously uncollected stories and some exciting new work." --back cover
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
Alternative Title
Short stories.
Subject
  • Islands of the Pacific > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • Samoan Islands > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • Pacific Area > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • Islands of the Pacific > Fiction
  • Samoan Islands > Fiction
  • Pacific Area > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From Flying-fox in a freedom tree. A descendant of the mountain -- The cross of soot -- Captain Full : the strongest man alive -- Who got allthing strong men got -- Pint-sized devil on a thoroughbred -- A resurrection -- The coming of the whiteman -- Declaration of independence -- Flying-fox in a freedom tree -- Virgin-wise : the last confession of humble man who is man got religion -- From The birth and death of the miracle man. A talent -- Justice -- The birth and death of the miracle man -- Elena's son -- Exam failure praying -- The balloonfish and the armadillo -- Prospecting -- I will be our saviour from the bad smell -- Birthdays -- Daughter of the mango season -- Crocodile -- Hamlet -- From journals. A genealogy of women -- The don'ts of whistling -- New work. Heat -- A family again -- Deliver us from Alice -- The bird -- The eyes have it -- Waiaruhe.
ISBN
186941392X
LCCN
^^^99458631^
OCLC
  • 43096908
  • SCSB-12342443
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library