The Book of Iris A Life of Robin Hyde By Derek Challis, Gloria Rawlinson

HARDBACK as new, with jacket, small closed repaired tear to edge.

778 pages Published by Auckland University Press, 2002 ISBN: 1869402677 Illustrated 16.5 x 5.6 x 21.6 centimetres (1.72 kg)

This extraordinary biography of Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson) has been in the making for 40 years and fills a major gap in New Zealand's literary history. Gloria Rawlinson, a close friend of Iris Wilkinson's, did much of the research and completed a first draft before she died; Derek Challis, Wilkinson's son, has brought it to completion. It is a gripping and profoundly moving story about (as our reader says) a 'short, tumultuous, incredibly productive, sad and doomed life. It suggests comparison with both Mansfield and Frame...'. A dramatic and' densely packed narrative, including appalling accounts of hidden pregnancies, experience as a solo mother, dependence on drugs, intimate acquaintance with sexism and poverty, mental breakdown, and an extraordinary trip in China during the Sino-Japanese war.

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