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A co-worker from NZ gave me this book like a year ago as a going away gift (holy hell!) and I finally got around to reading it now. The cover isn't too attractive and I guess I wanted to bring it home with me, so I never read it in my travels because then I know I would sort of have to trade it for something else. And while, it was sort of boring, I am glad I waited because now I want to send it to my friend Jess who sent me a book in NZ when we were both there. Dude comes to NZ after "the great...more
Man Alone by John Mulgan was definitely one of the few books I have read which focused so intensely on the typically masculine qualities men are said to acquire. In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to Johnson, an English soldier who has survived WW1 and has now settled into Auckland, NZ in midst of the depression. He takes up farming in Waikato and later in the centre of the North island and is also involved in riots over the countries economic situation.
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A novel of it's time - written in 1939 by New Zealander John Mulgan, during his time in England, but set in New Zealand. It is a dry, cold story, written in a dry, cold style. But it contains a lot of historical snippets that convey the times in New Zealand between WWI and WWII, as well as men's thinking of the time. This book is acclaimed in NZ literary tradition as a "landmark in the emergence of local literature", and while that is undeniable, Jane Mander's The Story of a New Zealand River, w...more
its been a while, but from memory I really like this book. He describes a kind of life I'd like to have lead if I was living in those times. Sometimes the life of a constant traveller sounds pretty attractive, though I guess it would be a hard life, sometimes.
A rare glimpse into a time I knew little about in NZ in the 1920-1930's. He lost the plot with the ending though.
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