In the last two decades there has been a marked increase in the quality and quantity of short fiction published by New Zealand women. This anthology, a celebration of the excellence of their work, includes stories by Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Fiona Kidman, Patricia Grace, Margaret Sutherland, Joy Cowley, Jean Watson, and others. The collection not only conveys a sense of excitement in these women's artistic production, but also encourages other women who are just beginning to find what they want to say.

Women's Work: Contemporary Short Stories by New Zealand Women (New Zealand Classics)

McLeod, Marion

Oxford University Press

The country to be found in these pages is not the place depicted in glossy picture books or economic profiles. But it is a real place, composed of that blend of accuracy and vision which only the imagination, committed to language and experience, can supply. It is the New Zealand of Janet Frame and Katherine Mansfield, of Dan Davin and Frank Sargeson, of Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace.  Some Other Country is a collection of stories from the body of New Zealand writing that began with the work of the young expatriate writer, Katherine Mansfield. It includes recent work by Vincent O'Sullivan, Owen Marshall and Keri Hulme and stories by newer writers such as Barbara Anderson, John Cranna and Emily Perkins, alongside well-known stories by Joy Cowley, C. K. Stead and James Courage.  Some Other Country represents the editors' choice of simply "the best we could find."

Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Manhire, Bill

Contemporary

Unwin Hyman

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