South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956

Author(s): C K Stead

NZ Biography & Memoir

'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 and without a passport, back and forth across that border, and prefers it should be unmarked and without check-points.' - C K Stead. Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C K Stead has changed his mind. In South-West of Eden, a coming-of-age memoir by New Zealand's leading poet, novelist and critic writes of a life 'lived by history' - running wild in Cornwall Park, joining the Labour Party aged seven, discovering poetry in a third-form English class and enjoying a newly married annus mirabilis in a flat on Takapuna Beach down the road from Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame.

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General Fields

  • : 9781869404543
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : May 2010
  • : 210mm X 140mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : C K Stead
  • : Hardback
  • : 1st Edition
  • : 821.914
  • : Very Good
  • : 360
  • : illustrations