Description
An anthology that does justice to the range and extent of short fiction written in New Zealand. Nineteenth-century writing, which is largely unknown, is represented by Clara Cheeseman and GB Lancaster, as well as by the more familiar Lady Barker and the itinerant Henry Lawson. In the earlier twentieth century Katherine Mansfield is followed by Greville Texidor as well as Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin.
The middle years of the century exhibit a flowering of talent. Janet Frame, Maurice Duggan and Maurice Gee are all fine practitioners of the genre, while Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace are the strong voices of Maori writing. The past dozen or so years have seen an explosion of new writing, with talents as diverse as Owen Marshall, Keri Hulme, Barbara Anderson, and Peter Wells (back cover).
