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Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Octavo softcover (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 272 pages. After the death of his brilliant, eccentric father, Adam Dudding went in sear ch of the stories and secrets of a man who had been a loving parent and husband, but was also a tormented, controlling and at times cruel man. Robin Dudding was the greatest New Zealand literary editor of his generation - friend and mentor of many of our best-known writers. At his peak he published the country's finest literary journal on the smell of an oily rag from a falling-down house overflow ing with books, long-haired children and chickens - an island of nonconformity i n the heart of 1970s Auckland suburbia. Yet when Robin's uncompromising integrit y tipped into something much more self-destructive, a dark shadow fell over his career and personal life. In My Father's Island, Adam Dudding writes frankly abo ut the rise and fall of an unconventional cultural figure. But this is also a mo ving, funny and deeply personal story of a family, of a marriage, of feuds and s ecret loves - and of a son's dawning understanding of his father.…