The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories

✍ Scribed by Dan Davin

• Book ID: 110960444
• Publisher: Otago University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 673 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781988592305

✦ Synopsis

Dan Davin, one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an Irish–New Zealand family in Southland. Comic, haunting, poetic, profound, and lyrical, the stories have a regional flavour quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand literature. They insightfully capture the character of a close-knit rural community and its post-British social relationships and tribulations, with a flair equal to such other New Zealand writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton, or Marshall. The Gorse Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of twentieth-century New Zealand literature.