Death Of The Body
$43.49
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2013
Summary
“Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino” - Jackie Wullschl ger, Financial Times
Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his problems. Harry’s wife has turned his study into a sufi shrine where she sits cross-legged and chants for hours on end: “I am not this body…” And Harry doesn’t know it yet but the Drug Squad have taken up residence in his kitchen so as to ob…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846554711 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846554713 |
| Author: | C.K. Stead |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 135mm x 215mm |
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C.K. Stead
C. K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland until 1986. In 1984, he was awarded the CBE for services to New Zealand literature. He has published ten volumes of poetry, two volumes of stories, and several works of criticism. He also edited the Penguin Modern Classics Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield and published several novels, including The Secret History of Modernism and Mansfield.
In March 2010, C.K. Stead won the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for ‘Last Season’s Man’.
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