Publication

2008 - Victoria University Press, Wellington, N.Z, New Zealand

Language

English

Word Count

91,750 words, Guess

Page Count

367 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780864735928
  • ISBN-100864735928
  • Goodreads5978836
  • LibraryThing7538199
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009286785
and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR9639.3.K57 Z46 2008

Description

"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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The love school: personal essaysVictoria University Press2008-01-01

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