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Author : Owen Marshall
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : New Zealand
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 361/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Best of Owen Marshall's Short Stories by : Owen Marshall
Download or read book The Best of Owen Marshall's Short Stories written by Owen Marshall. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Marshall
Release : 2021-06-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 840/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Author's Cut by : Owen Marshall
Download or read book The Author's Cut written by Owen Marshall. This book was released on 2021-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by the author from his thirteen previous collections, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they probe our national psyche with clear-eyed insight. This selection from a long career ranges across New Zealand and ventures overseas; the pieces explore both cruelty and love; they look back to childhood and also capture the world we live in today. Full of unexpected turns, lyrical writing, wry observations and intriguing plots, this sampling offers a provocative take on New Zealand. `I very much envy his ability to lay things down in such a way that each one has its natural weight and place, without any straining and heaving.' - Maurice Gee, Sport 'Owen Marshall has established himself as one of the masters of the short story' - Livres Hebdo, Paris
Author : Vincent O'Sullivan
Release : 2010-05-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Owen Marshall Selected Stories by : Vincent O'Sullivan
Download or read book Owen Marshall Selected Stories written by Vincent O'Sullivan. This book was released on 2010-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generous selection from New Zealand's foremost writer of short stories. Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers - generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is perhaps evoked not just by the superb quality of Marshall's writing but because his stories so precisely capture his fellow New Zealanders and their country. From the provinces to the cities, the remote landscapes to journeying overseas, Marshall's stories show a deep understanding of who and where we are. Sometimes he skewers the locals with sharp and sly comedy, in other stories there's an elegiac sadness or a grim reality, but always an insightful exploration of human emotions. From the substantial body of work created over the last thirty years, critic, writer and academic Vincent O'Sullivan has selected sixty stories that give a wide representation of Marshall's range. He once wrote that short stories should aspire to a combination of 'intransigence and poetry', both of which are evident in this fine selection. 'Marshall is a writer who speaks with equal intensity to the unbearable loveliness and malevolence of life.' - Carolyn Bliss, World Literature Today
Author : Owen Marshall
Release : 2016-03-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 737/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Love as a Stranger by : Owen Marshall
Download or read book Love as a Stranger written by Owen Marshall. This book was released on 2016-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly tracing the progress of unexpected love and the perils of relationships, this gripping novel is a tour de force. Temporarily in Auckland while her husband is undergoing treatment, Sarah enjoys a walk in the coolness of the Symonds Street Cemetery. As she pauses at the grave of Emily Keeling, murdered in 1886 by a rejected suitor, a stranger named Hartley strikes up a conversation. Before long he arranges to meet Sarah for coffee. So their friendship begins, and soon blossoms into an affair, rich in mutual understanding and sexual excitement. But love may become obsession, which brings with it disquieting demands, even menace. ‘When love is not madness, it is not love.’
Author : Vincent O'Sullivan, Comp
Release : 2013-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Owen Marshall by : Vincent O'Sullivan, Comp
Download or read book Owen Marshall written by Vincent O'Sullivan, Comp. This book was released on 2013-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and generous selection from New Zealand's foremost writer of short stories.
