Dogside story /
Grace, Patricia, 1937-
Dogside story / Patricia Grace. - Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2001. - 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Novel. Reprinted in 20 cm. format: 2005.
There is a conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a 'secret for life, the one to die with'. But he realises that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, the secret will have to be told. 'The Sisters' are threatening to drag the whanau through the courts. But why? What is really going on? Meanwhile, wider events are encroaching. To this East Coast site visitors will arrive in numbers, wanting to be among the first in the world to see the new millennium sunrise. There are plans to be put into action, there's money to be made, and there's high drama as the millennium turns.
0141004193 0143018124
Millennium celebrations (Year 2000)--Fiction.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Fiction.
New Zealand--Fiction.
New Zealand fiction--20th century.
NZ823.2
Dogside story / Patricia Grace. - Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2001. - 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Novel. Reprinted in 20 cm. format: 2005.
There is a conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a 'secret for life, the one to die with'. But he realises that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, the secret will have to be told. 'The Sisters' are threatening to drag the whanau through the courts. But why? What is really going on? Meanwhile, wider events are encroaching. To this East Coast site visitors will arrive in numbers, wanting to be among the first in the world to see the new millennium sunrise. There are plans to be put into action, there's money to be made, and there's high drama as the millennium turns.
0141004193 0143018124
Millennium celebrations (Year 2000)--Fiction.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Fiction.
New Zealand--Fiction.
New Zealand fiction--20th century.
NZ823.2