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All Visitors Ashore by C K Stead
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Once he watched the white ships sail past Rangitoto Island and dreamed of a future beyond New Zealand. Now he wants only to recapture the past. An Auckland community: two not-so-faithful restaurant-running musicians, a gay artist and his lodger, the recently electrified Cecilia Skyways who is writing he ...Show more
Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic by C K Stead
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, ...Show more
Collected Poems, 1951-2006 by C. K. Stead
$60.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead's most lasting and memorable works into a single volume. Drawn from previously published works though his distinguished career, from his debut collection Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previous ...Show more
Kin of Place - Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers by C K Stead
$39.90 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Distinguished novelist and poet, C. K. Stead is also widely respected as a critic whose analytic sophistication is matched by a lively and engaging style. Here he combines most of the important essays in In the Glass Case (AUP, 1981), long out of print, and five from Answering to the Language (AUP, 1989 ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas' name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Juda ...Show more
Risk by C. K. Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.K. Stead "has the ability to set the scene in a few pithy lines and condense more telling details into a handful of pages than many writers manage in their entire chapters" said the Sunday Times. Recently divorced New Zealand native Sam Nola returns to London, ...Show more
Risk by C K Stead
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter f ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectur ...Show more
South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 by C K Stead
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Black River by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In May 2005 Karl Stead suffered a stroke which left him briefly dyslexic and innumerate but otherwise unaffected. During the days that followed he composed a series of short poems in his head, scribbling them into a notebook kept by his bed, ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
$37.00 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