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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823374603321

Autore

Davin Dan <1913-1990, >

Titolo

The gorse blooms pale : Dan Davin's Southland stories / / Dan Davin, Janet Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dunedin, New Zealand : , : Otago University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-988592-30-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages)

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Farm life - New Zealand - Southland

Southland (N.Z.) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dan Davin Chronology -- Map of Modern Invercargill -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I: From The Gorse Blooms Pale (1947) -- 'Perspective' -- 1. The Apostate -- 2. The Vigil -- 3. Milk Round -- 4. Late Snow -- 5. Death of a Dog -- 6. The Basket -- 7. Growing Up -- 8. Saturday Night -- 9. That Golden Time -- 10. Casualties -- 11. A Happy New Year -- 12. A Meeting Half Way -- Part II: From Breathing Spaces (1975) -- 'The Far-Away Hill' -- 13. Presents -- 14. Roof of the World -- 15. Goosey's Gallic War -- 16. The Tree -- 17. The Quiet One -- 18. A Return -- 19. First Flight -- 20. Bluff Retrospect -- Part III: Previously Uncollected Stories -- 'Invercargill Boundary' -- 21. Prometheus -- 22. The Albatross -- 23. Black Diamond -- 24. The Black Stranger -- 25. Gardens of Exile -- 26. Failed Exorcism -- Days End.