Research Catalog

Title

The best of Owen Marshall's short stories.

Author

Marshall, Owen, 1941-

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 1997.

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Details

Description

421 p.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subjects

• Fiction
• New Zealand > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Supper Waltz Wilson -- Tsunami -- Descent from the Flugelhorn -- The giving up party -- Rosemary for remembrance -- Mr Van Gogh -- The master of big jingles -- Cabernet sauvignon with my brother -- Charcoal burner's dream -- Father and son -- Requiem in a town house -- Prince Valiant -- Effigies of family Christmas -- Monologue and absent friends -- Thinking of Bagheera -- Body and soul -- Harvest apolalypse -- Kenneth's friend -- Spendthrift -- Divided world -- Seed merchant -- Town of rivers -- Paper parcel -- Fat boy -- Day Hemingway died -- Convalescence in the old city -- Castle of conceits -- Frozen continents -- Lynx hunter -- Valley day -- Mumsie and Zip -- Day with Yesterman -- Essie -- Wyldbaume at the frontier -- Poet's dream of amazons -- Ace of Diamonds Gang -- Lilies -- Complete male chauvinists' and idlers' pipe dream -- Off by heart -- Rule of Jenny Pen -- Iris -- Rose affliction -- Heating the world -- Literary fair -- Don't wake beside me -- Pluto -- Glasnost -- Dungarvie festival -- Tomorrow we save the orphans -- Working up north -- Occasion -- Cometh the hour -- Part of life -- Recollections of MKD -- Rebecca -- Prairie nights -- Peacock funeral -- Genesis -- Cass Robbins -- This man's army -- Day one -- Goodbye, Stanley Tan -- Flute and chance -- Birthday boy -- Late run -- Coming home in the dark -- People we know.

ISBN

1869413369 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98159094^

OCLC

• 39393053
• SCSB-11262678

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library