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Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason Barrowman, Rachel The story of how R.A.K. Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book, The Beggar, into Auckland harbour, in disappointment, disgust or despair because no one would buy it, is a legend in New Zealand literary history: a symbol of a time — the 1920s and 30s — when a true, vital, native literature struggled to be written or heard in a provincial and puritanical country. The full story of this gifted, troubled man is told for the first time in this elegant and accessible biography acclaimed as a major contribution to New Zealand literary history. This wonderful, scrupulous book at last explains the writer who produced New Zealand’s first great poems as well as the damaged, courageous man who lost his gift — Bill Manhire. Fifty black and white photographs. Winner of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Biography category in 2004. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“This wonderful, scrupulous book at last explains the writer who produced New Zealand’s first great poems as well as the damaged, courageous man who lost his gift.” — Bill Manhire. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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