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Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater: A Writer's Early Life

By Albert Wendt
Series: BWB Texts
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Albert Wendt crosses into new and deeply personal territory in this stirring BWB Text. Returning to his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, sees Wendt confront elemental questions: Is the Vaipe he has created in his stories, poetry and novels really the... Read More
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Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater: A Writer's Early Life

For many years the Pacific's leading novelist, poet and academic, Albert Wendt ventures into fascinating and deeply personal new territory.

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Albert Wendt crosses into new and deeply personal territory in this stirring BWB Text.

Returning to his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, sees Wendt confront elemental questions: Is the Vaipe he has created in his stories, poetry and novels really the Vaipe that existed and exists in real life? Or is it real only in his books? Is there a difference between the two? And does it matter?

The responses form a vivid narrative that draws on a life of award-winning writing, and returns full circle to the symbolic world of the Deadwater.

Series: BWB Texts

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780908321223

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 September 2015

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Bridget Williams Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

Collections

Albert Wendt Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Biographies New Zealand Non-Fiction New Zealand Published Non-Fiction Series: BWB Texts

About the Author

Maualaivao Albert Wendt has for many years been regarded as one of the Pacific's leading writers and a major influence on Pacific literature. His novels include Leaves of the Banyan Tree (which won the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards in 1980), Ola (which won the Commonwealth Book Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific in 1991), The Mango's Kiss and Sons for the Return Home. He is also a widely published poet. Albert Wendt recently retired as Professor of English at the University of Auckland.

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