Beyond the Breakwater: Short Stories 1948-1998 - Softcover

Middleton, O.E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877372560 ISBN 13: 9781877372568

Verlag: Otago University Press, 2008

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Book by Middleton OE

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Reseña del editor:

Beyond the Breakwater brings together 26 outstanding short stories, spanning half a century, by an acclaimed master of the genre, O.E. Middleton. While Middleton has been linked with the masculine realist New Zealand tradition of Frank Sargeson and Roderick Finlayson, Beyond the Breakwater also contains a diverse range of international settings and characters, from Berthe Albrecht's postwar experiences of Paris in For Once in Your Life to the secular London Eucharist of The Doss-house and the Duchess. At his best, Middleton's attention to detail and fully realized context brings to mind earlier masters, such as Yukio Mishima and Guy de Maupassant. In a typical Middleton story, carefully observed details build an impressionistic platform on which the destinies of his characters unravel.

Biografía del autor:

O. E. Middleton is a senior figure in New Zealand literature who served in the air force and army in 1944–45 and after the war lived in the U.S. before travel in Europe. He began publishing his stories in 1949.Lawrence Jones is a leading historian of New Zealand fiction. He is the author ofPicking up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932–1945.

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• Verlag: Otago University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1877372560
• ISBN 13: 9781877372568
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 367
• Herausgeber: Jones Lawrence