What you made of it : a memoir 1987-2020 / C.K. Stead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932-.

Stead, C. K.

Authors, New Zealand--20th century--Biography.

Authors, New Zealand.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 426 pages, 12 leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Having left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like Sister Hollywood and My Name Was Judas, criticism in the London Review of Books and the Financial Times, poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as novelist, poet and critic. It is also a period when Stead's fearless lucidity on matters literary and political embroil him in argument - from The Bone People to the meaning of the Treaty to the controversy over a London writer's flat. What was it like to be Allen Curnow's designated 'Critic across the Crescent'; or alternatively to be labelled 'the Tonya Harding of NZ Lit'? Covering Stead's travels from Los Angeles to Liguria, Croatia and Crete to Caracas and Colombia, as New Zealand poet laureate and Kohi swimmer, What You Made of It takes us deep inside the mind and experience of one of our major writers - and all in Stead's famously lucid 'story-telling' prose."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Oxford and Consequences

2. France and French and the French

3. The Home Front

4. Identities

5. The Datson Story

6. Life and Death in Liguria

7. The Writer at Work-1990s

8. Who Would You Trust?

9. The Pakeha Poet and the Tangata Whenua

10. The Curnow Factor - His Last Two Decades

11. Croatia, and `Last Season's Man'

12. Hitler and So On

13. High Octane

14. The Dark Angel and the Black River

15. The Trick of Standing Upright Here - and There

16. Nunc Dimittis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781869409463

1869409469

OCLC:

1246351416