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Mason: The Life of R. A. K. Mason
Rachel Barrowman
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Description for Mason: The Life of R. A. K. Mason
Paperback. Num Pages: 455 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
The full story of the gifted but troubled R. A. K. Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons after his extraordinary beginning that Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated. The legendary story of how Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book, The Beggar, into Auckland harbor in disappointment, disgust, or despair because no one would buy it is explored as a symbol of a time—the 1920s and 1930s—when a true, vital, native literature struggled to be written or heard in a provincial and puritanical country. Also explored are how Mason’s ... Read more
The full story of the gifted but troubled R. A. K. Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons after his extraordinary beginning that Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated. The legendary story of how Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book, The Beggar, into Auckland harbor in disappointment, disgust, or despair because no one would buy it is explored as a symbol of a time—the 1920s and 1930s—when a true, vital, native literature struggled to be written or heard in a provincial and puritanical country. Also explored are how Mason’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
455
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9780864734631
SKU
V9780864734631
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Ref
99-50
About Rachel Barrowman
Rachel Barrowman is the author of A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930–1950 and Victoria University of Wellington 1899–1999.
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