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Now When It Rains : A Writer's Memoir
Paperback Edition: 1
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman examines a life lived over 70 years through rapid social changes and personal upheavals, from the 1950s to the 2000s, as he stumbles towards becoming the writer he believed he could be. Growing up on the West Coast in theshadow of his fathers war and later imprisonment, he drops out of university and learns too much about drugs & alcohol while working as a shearer, bin-man and fisherman. Later in life he learns te reo and publishes groundbreaking history and memoir. This is a vital chronicle of our times; a frank and compelling insight into the writers mind and soul.
Featured in the 26 February 2019 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 288
Publisher : Steele Roberts Ltd
Publication date : 2018-11-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure