Looking for the Phoenix: Looking for the Phoenix: a Memoir by W. H. Oliver

W. H. Oliver, a writer, editor, professor, and central figure in New Zealand's intellectual landscape, reflects here on the decades of his own life and the history that has shaped him. A warm portrait is painted of his Cornish parents, whose experiences with immigration, rural work, the depression, and Labour activism are recounted. Oliver shares how he avidly absorbed education and progressed from rural schools to Oxford University. This wide-ranging account tells of ancestry and early childhood, the influences of feminism, friendship, marriage, and family, while acknowledging the broader scope of history and the development of New Zealand. This is a poet writing about history, and an historian writing autobiography-perceptive, wry, and sometimes painfully honest. This 2002 Bridget Williams Books Paperback is in good condition. Signed by author and with separate inscription by author.

ISBN: 9781877242984 SKU: 1527518 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.