Smith's Dream

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Longman Paul, 1971 - Fiction - 142 pages
Poised between dream and harsh reality, in an imaginary time of future crisis, New Zealand becomes one of the world's most interesting trouble spots when a dictator, supported by the military, is opposed by guerrillas who have taken to the Coromandel bush.

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Section 1
7
Section 2
25
Section 3
55
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About the author (1971)

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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