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In the Half Light of a Dying Day - Catullus 2023 by C. K. Stead
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
C. K. Stead returns to the poetry of Catullus.An old friend, a new character - C. K. Stead is scribe to love and grief in this beautiful new collection.In two sequences the poet plays with the lines of history and love, the fictional and the autobiographical. Reflecting on a long career and familiar fac ...Show more
South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 by C K Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Very Good
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised a ...Show more
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humor evident at every turn. The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and include ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C. K. Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning Karl Stead.
What You Made of It - A Memoir, 1987-2020 by C K Stead
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of C. K. Stead’s memoirs, from leaving the University of Auckland to write full-time until today. ‘These are my encounters and engagements with the world of books and writers, and of teaching and writing about them,’ C. K. Stead writes in this third and final volume of his mem ...Show more
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 — Volume 2 by C.K. Stead
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more
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