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The gorse blooms pale : Dan Davin's Southland stories /

Twenty-six stories, drawn from the rich oral culture of an Irish-Catholic childhood in Southland and written between 1934 and 1989, explore and reflect on that experience. The gorse blooms pale brings together Davin's Southland stories, published and unpublished, for the first time. The stories...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davin, Dan, 1913-1990 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Wilson, Janet (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. From The gorse blooms pale (1947)
  • The Apostate
  • The vigil
  • Milk round
  • Late snow
  • Death of a dog
  • The basket
  • Growing up
  • Saturday night
  • That golden time
  • Casualties
  • A happy new year
  • A meeting half way
  • Part 2. From Breathing spaces (1975)
  • Presents
  • Roof of the world
  • Goosey's gallic war
  • The tree
  • The quiet one
  • A return
  • First flight
  • Bluff retrospect
  • Part 3. Previously uncollected stories
  • Prometheus
  • The albatross
  • Black diamond
  • The black stranger
  • Gardens of exile
  • Failed exorcism.