All Visitors Ashore

By: C. K. Stead

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Paperback | 1 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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160 Pages

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Once he watched the white ships sail past Rangitoto Island and dreamed of a future beyond New Zealand. Now he wants only to recapture the past.

As their freinds leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.

It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna shoreline of Auckland, where the artist Melior Farbro grew his vegetables and let Cecilia Skyways follow her own form of Zen Buddhism in his garden hut. Where Curl Skidmore, his brilliant young head full of novels waiting to be unravelled, could dream of God, Fame, Nirvana, Great Love, or maybe just sex. Where not even the harbourfront strike of 1951 could convince them that life wasn't about poetry and painting and potential.

Industry Reviews

Poetic, funny and very enjoyable. -- Richard Francis * Times Literary Supplement *
It seems incontestable to me that C.K. Stead is among the very best contemporary novelists. -- John De Fable * Spectator *

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