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    The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories
    The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories
    The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories
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    The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories

    By Dan Davin

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    Dan Davin, one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an IrishNew Zealand family in Southland. Comic, haunting, poetic, profound, and lyrical, the stories have a regional flavour quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand literature. They insightfully capture the character of a close-knit rural community and its post-British social relationships and tribulations, with a flair equal to such other New Zealand writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton, or Marshall. The Gorse Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of twentieth-century New Zealand literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtago University Press
    Release dateApr 6, 2020
    ISBN9781988592305
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      The gorse blooms pale are a collection of Dan Davin’s Southland stories. Being the first of his works I’ve come across I’m now looking forward to reading his novels Roads from home and For the Rest of Our Lives. As the title suggests Dan Davin writes of home. If the works of the writer/s of The Little House on the Prairie hadn’t been turned into a television series and been so popular, then this collection of stories should have been the basis for more realistic programmes.You’ll laugh at Dan Davin’s philosophy (as a child) of God being green; or even perhaps want to have a cry when and how he finds out his cousin is not able to marry the girl who was to have his child; but most profound, the year his father shoplifted a printing set for a Christmas present. Well worth a read.

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