ISBN: 9781869419196 - drybread (5 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Drybread This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good - Some Wear. First Edition.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. 271 pages. cover creased, page edge and text foxedA graveyard is all that's left of the remote Central Otago settlement of Dryb read, which miners, often hungry and disappointed, once searched for gold. It is to an old cottage nearby that Penny Maine-King flees with her young son, defyin g a Californian court order awarding custody of the child to her estranged husba nd. And seeking her in this austere, burnt country is journalist Theo Esler. He is after a story, but he discovers something far more personal and significant. Drybread, Owen Marshall's third novel, is a moving study of love and disappointm ent, of the harm we do to each other, knowingly and unknowingly, of the power an d significance of landscape in our lives. Rich and subtle, it is a compelling bo ok from one of this country's finest writers. 'Marshall is held in uncommon affe ction by New Zealand readers - generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' - Peter Simpson, New Zealand Listener 'I'm an admirer of Owen Mars hall's literature, with my favourite stories, chapters, etc.' - Janet Frame 'Amo ng active New Zealand writers only Maurice Gee writes with comparable - and equa lly unfashionable - moral and psychological weight.'- Lawrence Jones 'I find mys elf exclaiming over and again with delight at the precision, the beauty, the nea r perfection of his writing.' - Fiona Kidman, The Dominion.…