Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2016 - Softcover
Our editors went out into New Zealand and rounded up a pile of blogs and travelogues, memoirs and journalism – some of the best true stories from the last year or so. We’ve got bullies and Barbie, chakra and shipwrecks, loose lips and AK47s. From Oamaru to Xinjiang to New York, Tell You What: 2016 introduces us to some extraordinary tales of coming out and going home, of living and dying, of tragedy and transformation.
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Susanna Andrew has spent most of her working life in and around the book trade: in publishing, in bookshops, and in libraries. She has travelled extensively as a bookseller in the United Kingdom and Europe, and spent five years living in Berlin with her late husband Nigel Cox. As communications manager for the New Zealand Book Council, she founded the ‘True Stories Told Live’ initiative. She currently edits the book pages for Metro Magazine. Jolisa Gracewood was born in 1968 and grew up in Naenae and Papatoetoe, and has a PhD from in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. While in the US, Jolisa taught students at Cornell and Yale how to write essays and nonfiction prose; co-edited two anthologies of Japanese short stories for advanced learners; and wrote about books for her local newspaper and for New Zealand magazines. In her blog, Busytown, she wrote about raising her two sons in New York City and New Haven, CT. Since moving back to New Zealand with her family in 2012, Jolisa has worked as a literary editor, book reviewer, literary festival panellist, and freelance urban activist.
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- PublisherAuckland University Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1869408446
- ISBN 13 9781869408442
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
- EditorAndrew Susanna, Gracewood Jolisa
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Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2016
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Auckland University Press, New Zealand, Auckland
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ISBN 10: 1869408446
ISBN 13: 9781869408442
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tell you what: we've done it again. Our editors went out into New Zealand and rounded up a pile of blogs and travelogues, memoirs and journalism - some of the best true stories from the last year or so. We've got bullies and Barbie, chakra and shipwrecks, loose lips and AK47s. From ?amaru to Xinjiang to New York, Tell You What: 2016 introduces us to some extraordinary tales of coming out and going home, of living and dying, of tragedy and transformation. 'Marvellous', says John Campbell in his foreword. Read it and we know you'll agree. Including Tina Makereti on museumology and memory, Vicki Anderson on Christchurch buses, Steve Braunias on the threat of fire, Nicky Hager on dirty politics, Elizabeth Knox on death and disputation, Joe Nunweek on school suspensions, Ali Ikram on Keri Hulme and Matt Vickers on Lecretia Seales - not to mention work by Charles Anderson, Naomi Arnold, Rachel Buchanan, Kate Camp, Megan Dunn, Dan Eichblatt, David Fisher, Ross Nepia Himona, Lynn Jenner, Kirsten McDougall, Kristen Ng, Jenni Quilter, Sylvan Thomson, Giovanni Tiso and Ashleigh Young. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR007968596
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