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A Presbyterian minister from Scotland arrives in 19th-century New Zealand with his unhappy wife, and enjoys the botanical and carnal pleasures of Dunedin. His expulsion from this naturalists' paradise has unpleasant consequences for his middle-aged grandchildren decades later.
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She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel, dissecting her characters with sublime, sharp-edged prose (Guardian)
Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual (Julie Myerson Independent on Sunday)
She is a dazzling sort of a writer (Rachel Cooke)
Shena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by . . . Her London is not a convenient backdrop - it is the capital itself, vividly and freshly set down in glancing detail (Paul Bailey Independent)
A rich feast to be enjoyed page by page as Mackay, in often dazzling prose, describes the hilarious antics of bibulous writers or, with moving lyricism, those 'surprised by joy' (Kirkus)
What a superbly imaginative writer she is ... Mackay takes large risks, but when they come off the result is breathtaking (John Banville)
An adroit novel that incisively but compassionately deploys a dysfunctional family with familiar problems - isolation, failed hopes, mutual deceit - in comic configurations (New York Times)
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Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual (Julie Myerson Independent on Sunday)
She is a dazzling sort of a writer (Rachel Cooke)
Shena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by . . . Her London is not a convenient backdrop - it is the capital itself, vividly and freshly set down in glancing detail (Paul Bailey Independent)
A rich feast to be enjoyed page by page as Mackay, in often dazzling prose, describes the hilarious antics of bibulous writers or, with moving lyricism, those 'surprised by joy' (Kirkus)
What a superbly imaginative writer she is ... Mackay takes large risks, but when they come off the result is breathtaking (John Banville)
An adroit novel that incisively but compassionately deploys a dysfunctional family with familiar problems - isolation, failed hopes, mutual deceit - in comic configurations (New York Times)
One of Shena Mackay's most acclaimed novels. A story of long consequences, betrayal, dark humour and redemption.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0434440485
- ISBN 13 9780434440481
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- Number of pages304
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Book Description First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 341 pages ; 24 cm. Summary : Rich, vivid and dazzlingly funny, Shena Mackay's brilliant novel opens in 19th century New Zealand. Jack Mackenzie, the Presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal, that Dunedin offers. His expulsion from his naturalist's Eden has consequences he never dreams of. Decades later, in London, his grandchildren, middle-aged and with life evaporating before them, search for love. Olive, embittered and lonely, tries to find it with Terry, an ambitious young writer in flight from his aged parents' mobile home, and more dangerously, with a baby she snatches on a crowded tube train. Her brother William, desiccated with grief for the death of a former pupil, has abandoned his job as headmaster. There is also Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand vagrant of mysterious parentage, whose sad plight to find belonging sears the heart. Subjects: New Zealand fiction. Dunedin (N.Z.) ; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language: English. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 353669
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Book Description First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 341 pages ; 24 cm. Summary : Rich, vivid and dazzlingly funny, Shena Mackay's brilliant novel opens in 19th century New Zealand. Jack Mackenzie, the Presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal, that Dunedin offers. His expulsion from his naturalist's Eden has consequences he never dreams of. Decades later, in London, his grandchildren, middle-aged and with life evaporating before them, search for love. Olive, embittered and lonely, tries to find it with Terry, an ambitious young writer in flight from his aged parents' mobile home, and more dangerously, with a baby she snatches on a crowded tube train. Her brother William, desiccated with grief for the death of a former pupil, has abandoned his job as headmaster. There is also Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand vagrant of mysterious parentage, whose sad plight to find belonging sears the heart. Subjects: New Zealand fiction. Dunedin (N.Z.) ; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language: English. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 353669
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Jack Mackenzie, the presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland and with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal that Dunedin offers. His expulsion from the naturalist's Eden has consequences he never dreams of. First printing. Well bound in black cloth boards with beige titling to spine. Corners and spine ends are all fine. Text pages are all fine with no markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket is unclipped, with some slight shelf wear. Dispatched same or next working day in protective packaging. Seller Inventory # 015737
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