The butcher shop / Jean Devanny ; edited and introduced by Heather Roberts.

Nā:

Devanny, Jean, 1894-1962 [author.]

Kaituhi:

Roberts, Heather [writer of introduction.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextSeries: New Zealand fiction ; book 16.Kaiwhakaputa: [Auckland] : [Oxford] : Auckland University Press ; Oxford University Press, 1981Edition: New editionWhakaahuatanga: 241 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0196480000
0196480019

Ngā marau:

Rural women -- New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

New Zealand fiction -- 20th century.

DDC classification:

NZ823.2 DEV
NZ823.2 21

LOC classification:

PR8233.E92 B8
PR9619.3 .D49 B87 1981
PR9639.3.D48 B8 1981

Contents:

Introduction / Heather Roberts -- The Butcher shop -- The banning of The butcher shop / Bill Pearson -- Notes -- Jean Devanny's published work.

Summary: "[This book] first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic - in other words, for promoting revolutionary ideas about the role of women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level the novel is a fast-paced account of how passion and jealousy destroy the lives of a rich and cultured farming family; on another it is a fierce polemic for the freedom of women, which in its frankness was years ahead of its time. ..."--Back cover.

Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.

Ngā puringa
Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Fiction	Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	DEVA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		i2239579

Ngā puringa katoa: 0

Orig. pub. 1926.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Heather Roberts -- The Butcher shop -- The banning of The butcher shop / Bill Pearson -- Notes -- Jean Devanny's published work.

"[This book] first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic - in other words, for promoting revolutionary ideas about the role of women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level the novel is a fast-paced account of how passion and jealousy destroy the lives of a rich and cultured farming family; on another it is a fierce polemic for the freedom of women, which in its frankness was years ahead of its time. ..."--Back cover.

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