The hut builder / Laurence Fearnley.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa:North Shore [New Zealand] : Penguin Books, 2010.Whakaahuatanga: [4], 389 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781459616349
- 1459616340
- 9780143205067
- 0143205064
- PR9637.3 Fea 2010
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tau tārua | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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New Zealand fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | FEA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | 1 | Wātea | A00629451 |
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FAU Last day in the dynamite factory / | FAU Snow country / | FAU The seventh son / 7th son | FEA The hut builder / | FEA Reach / | FEA The quiet spectacular / | FEA Scented : a novel / |
'I suddenly found myself in front of a scene of such beauty that it took my breath away ...' As a boy in the late 1930s, young Boden's life is changed for ever the day his neighbour Dudley drives him over the mountains into the vast snow-covered plains of the Mackenzie Country. He realises he will never be the same again. Years later, the 20-year-old Boden, now a university student, helps build an alpine hut high up on the eastern slopes of Mount Cook. Living in snow caves while the hut is built, Boden forms important relationships with members of his working party, most notably with Walter, a conscientious objector from the Second World War. Real historical characters (such as Edmund Hillary and literary editor Charles Brasch) make appearances in the novel. This is powerful new territory for Laurence Fearnley and marks her emergence into the very front rank of New Zealand fiction writing. The Hut Builder is without question her best novel yet, combining her proven story-telling skills with her passionate love of the mountains, the wilderness and the sky.
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