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008			050120s2005 nz 000 j eng
020			_a1869417062 (pbk.) : _c$27.95
035			_a(NLNZils)1086392
035			_a(NZ-WU)624168
035			_a(Nz)9085897
035			_a(OCoLC)61262548
037			_bRandom House
040			_aNZNB _cNZNB
082	0	4	_aNZ823.2 _222
100			_aMarshall, Owen, _d1941- _92892 _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWatch of gryphons and other stories / _cby Owen Marshall.
260			_aAuckland, N.Z. : _bVintage, _c2005.
300			_a316 p. ; _c20 cm.
505	0		_aBuried lives -- Passing triptych -- Facing Jack Palance -- The fan -- A kind of living -- Poetic licence -- A modern story -- Family circle -- Images -- Fellow citizens -- Buster -- Minding lear -- Margaret's view -- Arnal retent and a place in history -- Journey's end -- Voices with a common theme -- Celeine and the Pygmalion theatre -- Hodge -- Watch of Gryphons.
520			_aThe empty tussock dryness of New Zealand's South Island, the ancient stone buildings of Italy's Perugia, unsolved murder, the capricious indignity of Alzheimer's disease, adoption - there is a rich variety of setting and subject in this superb new collection by short fiction master Owen Marshall. Several longer stories give WATCH OF GRYPHONS a special depth and resonance, but present, as always, is the startling range and subtlety of emotion readers have come to expect from this most gifted of writers. Few other authors can move as deftly from the almost unbearably touching to the wildly absurd or the tenderly ordinary; few can see so much within and behind the everyday of life.
655		0	_918597 _aNew Zealand fiction _y21st century. _2lcsh
655		7	_9257 _aShort stories, New Zealand. _2lcsh
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