{"product_id":"what-you-made-of-it","title":"What You Made of It","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like \u003cem\u003eSister Hollywood\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMy Name Was Judas\u003c\/em\u003e, criticism in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, to poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as novelist, poet and critic. It is also a period when Stead’s fearless lucidity on matters literary and political embroil him in argument – from \u003cem\u003eThe Bone People\u003c\/em\u003e to the meaning of the Treaty to the controversy over a London writer’s flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhat was it like to be Allen Curnow’s designated ‘Critic across the Crescent’; or alternatively to be labelled ‘the Tonya Harding of NZ Lit’? How did poems emerge from time and place, sometimes as naturally as ‘leaves to a tree’, sometimes effortfully? And how did novels about individual men and women retell stories of war (World War II, Yugoslavia, Iraq) and peace?\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eCovering Stead’s travels from Los Angeles to Liguria, Croatia and Crete to Caracas and Colombia, as New Zealand poet laureate and Kohi swimmer, \u003cem\u003eWhat You Made of It \u003c\/em\u003etakes us deep inside the mind and experience of one of our major writers – and all in Stead’s famously lucid ‘story-telling’ prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66339015623005,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781869409463.jpg?v=1793103553","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/what-you-made-of-it","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}