Sister Hollywood

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Collins, 1989 - Fiction - 220 pages
This is the story of a girl who ran away from New Zealand to Hollywood, her affair with a producer, her marriage and her rise to power. C.K.Stead won the 1985 New Zealand Book Award for All Visitors Ashore. He also wrote The Death of the Body, Smith's Dream and Five for the Symbol.

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Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
151
Section 3
169
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About the author (1989)

C. K. Stead is a critic, editor, poet, novelist, and educator from New Zealand. He was a professor of English at Auckland University. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, novels and literary criticism. He received a New Zealand Book Award in Poetry in 1976 for Quesada and a New Zealand Book Award in Fiction for The Singing Whakapapa in 1995. He is the only person to have won the New Zealand Book Award for both poetry and fiction. He received a third place Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1972 for Smith's Dream and a Montana Prize in 2009 for Collected Poems 1951-2006. He also received the Jessie Mackay award, the King's Lynn Poetry prize, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Sarah Broom prize. The National Library of New Zealand named C. K. Stead the 2015-2017 New Zealand Poet Laureate.

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