ISBN: 9780868636740 - Coal Flat (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 421 pages. Dj ripped with bottom front missing. name on ttile pageCoal Flat is a small mining town on New Zealand's remote West Coast. The year i s 1947. Boarding at the local pub is Paul Rogers, who finished his BA on a Rehab grant after three years in the army, and has come back to the Flat to teach inf ants in the small primary school. But Rogers finds that his years away have turn ed him into an outsider. Inevitably he becomes involved in the complexities of C oal Flat life -- school and pub, beer boycott and miners' strike -- but his fine ly tuned sense of principles loses him more friends than it wins, and when he da ringly tries to put into practice the theories of A.S. Neill with a disturbed ch ild he earns the opprobrium of almost everyone.--Page 4 of cover.…