A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
Hardcover
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A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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'If I'd been asked to vote on it I would've said I'd landed at the centre of the universe. Standing on our corner of Sylvan Road and Victoria Street, with Te Mata Peak, the Tukituki River and the mad wilderness of Windsor Park to the back of me and the distinctly nonwilderness of Cornwall Park and the misty vista of the Ruahines in front of me, I was the master of all I could barely survey.' This charming memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known painters is a love letter to his home town, Hastings, and the weirdly innocent world of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Critic Reviews
‘Frizzell is a painter who has always cared about words’ — Kim Knight, New Zealand Herald
‘A celebration of landscape and culture, history and everyday objects’ — John Daly-Peoples, New Zealand Arts Review
‘Will leave you both laughing and longing for a time when boyhood was one grand adventure’ — Chris Reed, NZ Booklovers
‘Conjuring a world within a moment as seen through Frizzell’s eyes’ — Jack Riddell, Hawke’s Bay Today
About the Author
Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury from 1960 to 1963 and then had a long career in advertising. Alongside his career as a painter, Frizzell is also the highly sought-after designer of a range of products from toys to wine. He is the author of Dick Frizzell: The painter (Random House, 2009), It’s All About the Image (Random House, 2011), Me, According to the History of Art (Massey University Press, 2020), The Sun Is a Star (Massey University Press, 2021) and The Dance of the Hooligans (David Ling Publishing, 2023). Dick exhibits regularly and often works in collaboration with writers and other artists. He lives in Auckland with his wife, Jude.
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