Description
Author: Bill Manhire
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01/11/2015
Imprint: VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN: 9781776560752
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queens visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevensonthis is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide.
THE STORIES OF BILL MANHIRE collects the stories from The New Land: A Picture Book (1990) and those added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-own-adventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Under the Influence (2003).
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