Collected Stories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duggan, Maurice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

New Zealand--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Summary:

<DIV></DIV>Maurice Duggan's <I>Collected Stories</I> is a powerful collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's finest writers of the genre. Duggan's lyrical power and exceptional style come to the fore in these brilliant stories, which are tinged with undercurrents and ambivalences. The variety of language gives great vitality to tales of a Catholic boyhood, troubled marriage, loneliness, small town ambitions and sexuality. Maurice Duggan destroyed his unpublished fiction, so Collected Stories represents virtually all of his remaining works. The critic, poet and novelist C. K. Stead

Contents:

Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Introduction; Early uncollected stories; Faith of our fathers; Machinery me; Notes on an abstract arachnid; Still life; Old man; Conversation piece; That long, long road; Sunbrown; Listen to the mocking bird; Immanuel's land; Guardian; Six place names and a girl; Race day; A small story; The killer; Now is the hour; In youth is pleasure; Chapter; Voyage; Towards the mountains; Salvation Sunday; From Summer in the gravel pit; The wits of Willie Graves; Blues for Miss Laverty; For the love of Rupert; Along Rideout Road that summer; The deposition; The departure

O'Leary's orchardO'Leary's orchard; An appetite for flowers; Riley's handbook; Published posthumously; The Magsman miscellany; Earlier publication of stories; Notes on texts and publishing matters; Acknowledgements and thanks

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77558-534-4

OCLC:

863821893