The fools on the hill
By: Graeme Lay
Publisher: Century Hutchinson
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Auckland, [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781869410131
Subjects: New Zealand fiction; NEW ZEALAND FICTION
Description: Stephen, Josie and Simon are three students who meet for the first time at an English tutorial at Victoria University, Wellington, 1963. Drugs and protest are unknown, the macho cult of rugby still counts for more than intellect, the pubs close at six o'clock. Society is complacent, conforming and appararently unchanging. But the subsequent coming-of-age of the trio and their friends over the next six years coincides with a sexual and political revolution which blows them all apart. They become caught in personal and political struggles to come to terms with the new realities, at a time when both those who cling to the old values and those who embrace the new find their sense of security threatened.
Notes: Purple 1/4 binding.

"Parts of this work have previously been published in the literary magazines, Landfall and Islands, and broadcast on Radio New Zealand as the series, Fraser and me"--T.p. verso.

Novel.