The best New Zealand fiction
By: edited by Owen Marshall
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781869419790; 9781869418779
Subjects: New Zealand Short stories; New Zealand fiction
Description: "Widely admired and regularly cited as our best living writer of short stories, Owen Marshall turns the focus on his contemporaries. He has searched the country for the finest selection of stories being written today by a variety of local writers. Their current reoccupations range from a dog with no head, to reproducing reproductions, to amateur drug-dealing, to a little liar talking big their lively characters xperience the clumsy conflicts of adolescence right up to a defiant old age. As our writers travel overseas, so their intriguing stories take us from our own backyards to as far afield as China, Morocco, Berlin and the UK. Contributors: Norman Bilbrough, Ellie Catton, Paul Chapman, Craig Cliff, Charlotte Grimshaw, Lizzie Harwood, David Hill, Christine Johnston, Fiona Kidman, Shonagh Koea, Sarah Laing, Graeme Lay, Frankie McMillan, Carl Nixon, Julian Novitz, Vincent O'Sullivan, Faith Oxenbridge, Sarah Quigley, Alice Tawhai, Peter Wells"--Back cover.
Notes: Some stories previously published.

"A Vintage book"--Title page verso.

Notes on contributors (p. [205]-216).
Table of contents: title: A massage in Beijing  -- Norman Bilbrough; title: Necropolois  -- Eleanor Catton; title: Manoeuvres  -- Paul Chapman; title: Copies  -- Craig Cliff; title: Opportunity  -- c Charlotte Grimshaw; title: Throat for dinner  -- Lizzie Harwood; title: No problem  -- David Hill; title: Mere oblivion  -- Christine Johnston; title: The trouble with fire  -- Fiona Kidman; title: A room for baskets  -- Shonagh Koea; title: Inside a pomegranite  -- Sarah Laing; title: South Island story  -- Grame Lay; title: Dead men's brains  -- Frankie McMillan; title: My beautiful balloon  -- Carl Nixon; title: Creative industries  -- Julian Novitz; title: Getting it right  -- Vincent O'Sullivan; title: Hope  -- Faith Oxenbridge; title: Alexander two  -- Sarah Quigley; title: Pants on fire  -- Alice Tawhai; title: Knowledge -- Peter Wells.; title: A massage in Beijing / Norman Bilbrough; title: Necropolis / Eleanor Catton; title: Manoeuvres / Paul Chapman; title: Copies / Craig Cliff; title: Opportunity / Charlotte Grimshaw; title: Throat for dinner / Lizzie Harwood; title: No problem / David Hill; title: Mere oblivion / Christine Johnston; title: The trouble with fire / Fiona Kidman; title: A room for baskets / Shonagh Koea; title: Inside a pomegranate / Sarah Laing; title: South Island story / Graeme Lay; title: Dead men's brains / Frankie McMillan; title: My beautiful balloon / Carl Nixon; title: Creative industries / Julian Novitz; title: Getting it right / Vincent O'Sullivan; title: Hope / Faith Oxenbridge; title: Alexander two / Sarah Quigley; title: Pants on fire / Alice Tawhai; title: Knowledge / Peter Wells.