Breathing Spaces
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A literary giant of New Zealand letters, Dan Davin brought the same unflinching honesty to his memoir as he did to his celebrated war novels, and Breathing Spaces stands as one of his most intimate and reflective works. Drawing on his rich life as a writer, editor at Oxford University Press, and New Zealand expatriate, Davin chronicles the interstitial moments — the pauses between great events — that quietly shaped a remarkable intellectual life lived largely in England, far from his South Island roots. Thematically rich and laced with a wry, understated wit, Breathing Spaces illuminates the tensions between belonging and exile, memory and identity, that animated so much of Davin's fiction and non-fiction alike. A writer whose earlier bibliography ranged from the brutal landscapes of Crete — captured in his celebrated official war history — to the domestic drama of novels such as Roads from Home, Davin here presents a more personal register, one that rewards readers who appreciate finely crafted prose and the quiet revelations of a well-examined life. For anyone drawn to mid-twentieth-century literary culture or the New Zealand literary tradition, this volume opens a door that never fully closes.
Author: Dan Davin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Robert Hale & Company (London) / Whitcoulls Publishers (New Zealand)
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A literary giant of New Zealand letters, Dan Davin brought the same unflinching honesty to his memoir as he did to his celebrated war novels, and Breathing Spaces stands as one of his most intimate and reflective works. Drawing on his rich life as a writer, editor at Oxford University Press, and New Zealand expatriate, Davin chronicles the interstitial moments — the pauses between great events — that quietly shaped a remarkable intellectual life lived largely in England, far from his South Island roots. Thematically rich and laced with a wry, understated wit, Breathing Spaces illuminates the tensions between belonging and exile, memory and identity, that animated so much of Davin's fiction and non-fiction alike. A writer whose earlier bibliography ranged from the brutal landscapes of Crete — captured in his celebrated official war history — to the domestic drama of novels such as Roads from Home, Davin here presents a more personal register, one that rewards readers who appreciate finely crafted prose and the quiet revelations of a well-examined life. For anyone drawn to mid-twentieth-century literary culture or the New Zealand literary tradition, this volume opens a door that never fully closes.