Research Catalog

Title

The love school : personal essays / Elizabeth Knox.

Author

Knox, Elizabeth

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press, 2008

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Description

367 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"The Love School collects more than twenty years' of Elizabeth Knox's non-fiction. These frank and revealing essays and talks tell the story of her writing s beginnings in childhood imaginary games played with her sisters and friends; of leaving home and working at Inland Revenue to earn money to write; of the writing and putting away of the two novels that came before her prize-winning debut, After Z-Hour, in 1987; and of the extraordinary novels which followed. Here is Wellington in the eighties: lives led in now demolished buildings, the pastimes and politics of the period described with vivid particularity, passion, wisdom and a sense of the absurd." "In these pages the reader will encounter the comic: possums who invade and occupy a portion of the author's Brooklyn flat; the dramatic: the Red Squad at the intersection of Rintoul and Riddiford Streets on Wellington test day; and the mysterious: an angelic stranger in a Venetian back street."--Jacket.

Subject

• Knox, Elizabeth
• 1900-1999
• Fiction > Authorship

Genre/Form

• New Zealand essays – 20th century.
• New Zealand essays – 21st century.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [11-13]).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Origins, authority and imaginary games -- Afraid -- When we stopped -- Getting over it -- Reuben Avenue -- Test day -- Assemble in Bunny Street -- A doubtful guest -- The receding lion: A vulgar manifesto -- Going to the gym -- On being picked up -- On the Am track -- A stilled cascade -- A little story about (among other things) how a book about wine drove me to drink -- My history with wings -- The high jump: Privacy, veracity and autobiographical fiction -- Provenance: Why I wrote Black Oxen -- Why I write -- VUW graduation address, 2001 -- Starling -- Hands and hooves -- Patience -- The love school -- A little love talk -- Some thoughts about plot -- Where Dreamhunter came from -- Some thoughts on rereading -- The charm of fantasy -- VUW graduation address, 2007 -- Speech for the Michael L. Printz Honor Award at the American Library Association Conference.

ISBN

• 9780864735928 (pbk.)
• 0864735928 (pbk.)

OCLC

264023925

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library