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Talking about O'Dwyer / C.K. Stead.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.S7 T35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealanders--England--Fiction.
- New Zealanders.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Greece--Crete--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Maori--Fiction.
- Friendly fire (Military science)--Fiction.
- Friendly fire (Military science).
- Blessing and cursing--Fiction.
- Blessing and cursing.
- Philosophy teachers.
- England.
- Philosophy teachers--Fiction.
- Oxford (England)--Fiction.
- Oxford (England).
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Divorced men--Fiction.
- Divorced men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Campus fiction.
- War stories.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvill Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Mike Newall, Oxford don, is seeking to build a new life after his divorce but feels increasingly weighed down by the past. When colleague and fellow New Zealander Donovan O'Dwyer dies, Newall reveals to his friend Winterstoke the secret that O'Dwyer carried to the grave. Believing that O'Dwyer caused the death of a Maori soldier during the battle for Crete in World War II, the soldier's family place a makutu, a Maori curse, on him.
- Newall's and O'Dwyer's lives are curiously interconnected and Newall finds that he must interweave O'Dwyer's tale with his own: a childhood in New Zealand, self-imposed exile in Oxford, marriage, and divorce. And in recounting these parallel lives, he gradually comes to see a way of laying the ghosts of O'Dwyer's -- and his own -- past to rest.
- ISBN:
- 1860467105
- OCLC:
- 43673084
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