An evocative memoir about the emergence of a pre-eminent writer in a changing world’What I have to tell is largely a personal narrative about how I came to inhabit a fictional world’ This absorbing memoir explores the first half of writer Fiona Kidman’s life, notably in Kerikeri amid the ‘sharp citric scent of orange groves, bright heat and . . . the shadow of Asia’ – at the end of Darwin Road. From the distance of France, where Kidman spent time as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton, she reconsiders the past, weaving personal reflection and experience with the history of the places where she lived, particularly the fascinating northern settlements of Kerikeri and Waipu, and further south the cities of Rotorua and Wellington. Her story crosses paths with those of numerous different New Zealanders, from the Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana, to descendants of the migration from Scotland led by a charismatic Presbyterian minister, to other writers and significant friends. We learn of Kidman’s struggles to establish herself as a writer and to become part of different communities, and how each worked their way into her fiction. At the End of Darwin Road is a vivid memoir of place and family, and of becoming a writer: ‘I was certain that . . . I would continue to write, if possible, every day of my life.’
Fiona Kidman
At the End of Darwin Road [EPUB ebook]
A Memoir
At the End of Darwin Road [EPUB ebook]
A Memoir
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 272 ● ISBN 9781869796402 ● 出版者 Random House New Zealand ● 发布时间 2011 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2429159 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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