Let the River Stand (Popular Penguin)
Author(s): Vincent O'Sullivan
In the deceptively quiet Waikato of the 1930s and 1940s, a number of lives connect in a complex web of family ties, desire and violence. The events of this story also take in boxing, farming, devotion and perversion, ranging as far as Tasmania and the Spanish Civil War. Alex, tall and solitary, striding through this novel ...Barbara, his first love ...Bet, strong and unobtrusive ...And the enigmatic man in the balaclava.
General Information
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- : Penguin Group (NZ)
- : Penguin Books (NZ)
- : 01 July 2010
- : New Zealand
- : 01 June 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Vincent O'Sullivan
- : Paperback
- : 1
More About The Product
Vincent O'Sullivan is a major New Zealand writer. An award-winning short-story writer, he is also highly regarded as a playwright, poet, critic and editor. He has edited a number of major New Zealand anthologies. After spending part of the 1980s in Australia, he currently lives in Wellington, where he is Professor of English at Victoria University.