The land near Oz
Subtitle: two gay yankees move to New Zealand
By: Aaron Allbright
Publisher: Astrolabe Media Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [S. l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780982856505
Subjects: Social life and customs; Gay couples; Description and travel
Notes: Like Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence and Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun, this memoir shows the explosive, endearing, unforgettable follies of being an expat, as well as the wild mysteries of living a full life. Here readers glimpse what comes after adventure - and are given itimations of morality in Paradise. A sort of modern-day Gay Huck Finn, who becomes a professor and then runs away from it all, author Aaron Allbright lights out for the Territory and moves to the land of cannibals and flightless birds. With his beautiful lover Beau, an IBM exec who chucks Big Blue, he makes a life Down Under.  More Down Under than Australia - called OZ by folk thereabouts. Not since Herman Melville voyaged to the Antipodes - not since Ishmael shared a cozy bed with Queequeg, that affectionate cannibal from New Zealand - has an American met Kiwiwland in the way you will meet it in this memoir. Allbright describes their wanderlust for exploring this Newest World and the bright, cheeky landscapes of humanity they encounter" -- P. [4] of cover.