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Back Of His Head
Paperback Edition: 1
Raymond Thomas Lawrence was one of the great literary colossi to bestride the twentieth century. He turned his upbringing in conservative Canterbury and participation in the Algerian War of Independence into a series of novels that dazzled the world, and eventually won him the Nobel
Prize for Literature. Seven years after Lawrences death, however, the four trustees of the literary trust set up to memorialise New Zealands greatest writer are facing rising costs and dwindling visitor numbers at the Residence. While fending off a self-appointed biographer, they find themselves confronting the secrets of their own intimate relationships with The Master.
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Featured in the 12 October 2015 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Pages : 374
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2015-10-08
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction