Through the looking glass: Recollections of childhood from 20 prominent New Zealanders
by Michael Gifkins (Editor)
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Engaging, humorous, painful, but always honest - 20 prominent New Zealanders describe what it was like, when they were young. Who could have predicted that these particular children would grow to fill their present positions of respect? In Through the Looking Glass, Michael Gifkins has provided us with a fascinating glimpse of the childhoods of New Zealanders who are eminent in their fields or prominent in the public eye, to set against what we know of them as adults, and perhaps against show more what we know of ourselves as children. Lauris Edmond recalls the Napier 'quake, with someone's grandmother bucketing pinkly naked down the main street in a white porcelain bath. Bob Jones shoots himself in the foot and his family can't stop laughing. Peter Lange learns early to subvert the system, under psychopathic masters with steel plates in their heads. Witi Ihimaera is greatly troubled as he learns about 'doing it'. Sir Peter Elworthy digs up dog bones and feeds them to the captive twins. Phoebe Meikle recalls calss and racism in Tauranga before WWI. show lessTags
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 920.0931 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Biographies General and collective by localities Of Oceania
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- DU422 .A2 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Oceania (South Seas) History of Oceania (South Seas) New Zealand Ethnography Maoris
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