The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin HydeAuckland University Press, 2002 - 778 pàgines "Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life. Here her story is told for the first time in a dramatic and deeply moving narrative. Researched by both authors from 1965 to 1971, it was written in a first draft by Iris Wilkinson's friend, Gloria Rawlinson; since Rawlinson's death in 1995 it has been revised and completed by Derek Challis, Wilkinson's son. It includes appalling accounts of hidden pregnancies, harsh experience as a solo mother, dependence on drugs, intimate acquaintance with sexism and poverty, mental breakdown, and a perilous trip to China in wartime. There are deep friendships and hurtful betrayals. Always there is a dedicated and determined commitment to writing. ..."--Jacket. |
Continguts
A most unusual child I | 1 |
Simone Purcell | 22 |
Harry | 44 |
Christopher Robin Hyde | 64 |
Hanmer woods | 79 |
John Schroder master of words | 98 |
About the wee book | 128 |
The most smuggled baby | 154 |
The White Seat | 364 |
I know what I am looking for | 394 |
Where the joke comes in | 430 |
A Night of Hell | 455 |
Shiplights | 488 |
Unbeaten and unbroken | 539 |
Special for you | 577 |
Paradox at Hsuchow | 600 |
The lady editor | 175 |
The Grey Lodge | 208 |
Introducing Miss Methuselah | 231 |
Bronze Outlaw | 266 |
Am I a cuttlefish good only for squirting ink? | 284 |
Thine Accursed | 311 |
Caught between the hinges | 344 |
China is floating past me | 629 |
Little China | 657 |
An idea in the minds of men | 682 |
One straw too many | 720 |
Notes | 751 |
Sources | 767 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin Hyde Derek Challis,Gloria Rawlinson Visualització de fragments - 2002 |
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Referències a aquest llibre
The Bookmen's Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand, 1920-1950 Christopher Hilliard Visualització de fragments - 2006 |