{"product_id":"what-you-made-of-it-c-k-stead-9781869409463","title":"What You Made of It: A Memoir, 1987-2020","description":"Having left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like \u003ci\u003eSister Hollywood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Name Was Judas\u003c\/i\u003e, criticism in the\u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as novelist, poet, and critic. It is also a period when Stead's fearless lucidity on matters literary and political embroil him in argument--from \u003ci\u003eThe Bone People\u003c\/i\u003e to the meaning of the Treaty to the controversy over a London writer's flat. What was it like to be Allen Curnow's designated 'Critic across the Crescent'; or alternatively to be labelled 'the Tonya Harding of NZ Lit'? How did poems emerge from time and place, sometimes as naturally as 'leaves to a tree, ' sometimes effortfully? And how did novels about individual men and women retell stories of war (World War II, Yugoslavia, Iraq) and peace? Covering Stead's travels from Los Angeles to Liguria, Croatia, and Crete to Caracas and Colombia, as New Zealand poet laureate and Kohi swimmer, \u003ci\u003eWhat You Made of It\u003c\/i\u003e takes us deep inside the mind and experience of one of our major writers--and all in Stead's famously lucid 'story-telling' prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. K. Stead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1869409469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781869409463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Auckland University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"C. K. Stead","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097084076287,"sku":"9781869409463","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-you-made-of-it-c-k-stead-9781869409463","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}