*** THE GODWITS FLY by Robin Hyde [HARDBACK] ***

This is an auction for THE GODWITS FLY by Robin Hyde.

"THE GODWITS FLY is acknowledged as a classic New Zealand novel. It was first published in 1938 and has been in print continuously since 1970. Interest in Robin Hyde within and beyond New Zealand is very strong and continues to increase. Much of what she wrote in the 1930s is only now being published, long after her death. Patrick Sandbrook says: 'Robin Hyde is now acknowledged to have been a tough-minded and intelligent woman who was fully in tune with what was going on in the world of ideas and with issues that are still relevant for New Zealand society. The Godwits Fly isn't seen as a simple story of New Zealand childhood or about a colonial yearning for England, as it once was. It is about universal themes and complex characters, but without labouring the writing and without losing a real sense of lived experience.' Sandbrook wrote a PhD thesis on Robin Hyde, 'Robin Hyde: a writer at work'. It started out as a bibliographical study of some of her papers and manuscripts, but it took off from there when he got hooked on her writing and inspired by her intensity. Pat had had a received view of Hyde as a gushy and naive writer, emotionally unstable and having shown at best unfulfilled promise - the antithesis of what 'true' New Zealand Literature of the 1930s was about. 'This was patently rubbish,' Sandbrook says. 'What I found when I paid attention to what she wrote rang true - the images and her way with words stuck with me'."

Hardback 1970.

236 pages.

Ex-library, but basically good condition.

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