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Gorse Blooms Pale
Dan Davin's Southland Stories
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Dan Davin, one of New Zealands acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an IrishNew Zealand family in Southland. Comic, haunting, poetic, profound and lyrical, the stories have a regional flavour quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand literature. They insightfully capture the character of a close-knit rural community and its post-British social relationships and tribulations, with a flair equal to such other New Zealand writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton or Marshall. The Gorse Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of twentieth-century New Zealand literature.
Dan Davin was a New Zealand Rhodes scholar who became Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Throughout his career, in his spare time, he wrote both fiction and works of memoir, from his war novel For the Rest of Their Lives (1947) and Southland novels Roads from Home (1949) and No Remittance (1959) to his collection of war stories The Salamander and the Fire (1986).
- ISBN-13
- 9781877372421
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Imprint
- Otago University Press (NZ)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2020
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 304
- Dimensions
- 140 x 210 mm
- Language
- English
