The butcher shop
By: Edited and introduced by Heather Roberts.
Contributors: Roberts, Heather.
Series: New Zealand fiction
Publisher: Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Description: "[This book] first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic - in other words, for promoting revolutionary ideas about the role of women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level the novel is a fast-paced account of how passion and jealousy destroy the lives of a rich and cultured farming family; on another it is a fierce polemic for the freedom of women, which in its frankness was years ahead of its time. ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published London, Duckworth, 1926.