Playing for Both Sides

Love Across the Tasman

By:

Stephanie Johnson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

BWB Texts

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For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something she says she agreed to 'for reasons that are complex and some of them hardly honourable'.For Johnson the longing to return has waxed and waned. 'Why don't I live there?' she often asks herself. Yet she is a sixth-generation New Zealander.In this BWB Text Johnson explores her elusive and ambivalent feelings about the sunburnt country - which includes a musician's road trip there with her singer-songwriter son Skyscraper Stan - and in so doing casts fascinating light on some of the formative influences that have shaped the work of this awardwinning New Zealand writer.

Author Biography:

Stephanie Johnson is a leading New Zealand novelist whose books have won many awards. Her novel The Shag Incident won the Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction in 2003. Her most recent novels have been The Writing Class and The Writers' Festival. She has also published collections of poetry, short stories and plays, and worked as an actor. She is also active as a critic and creative writing teacher.

Release date NZ

June 8th, 2016

Author

Stephanie Johnson

Series

BWB Texts

Pages

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Collection

New Zealand

ISBN-13

9780947492991

Product ID

25702619

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