A night at Green River
By: Noel Hilliard
Publisher: Robert Hale; Whitcombe & Tombs; The Crowood Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London; [Christchurch] N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780709107507
Description: He was a farmer new to the district and all he wanted was a little help to stack his hay. The men he asked were neighbours, farmers like himself, and he offered them good wages for a couple of hours' work. Why didn't they come? What kept them away? Had he said or done something wrong? Within the course of a tense and violent night he finds that not everyone takes the same view of money, or possessions, or status, or the purpose of human labour. He learns to his surprise that he and his wife are not quite the people he believed they were.
Notes: Novel by a New Zealand author.