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First blood : a novel / by Elizabeth Smither.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.Description: 175 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0340338709
  • 9780340338704
  • 0340338717
  • 9780340338711
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 19
LOC classification:
  • PR/9639.3/.S54/ F57/1983x
Summary: The author has used a real-life nineteenth century murder, the first to be committed in the young settlement of New Plymouth, as the central event of her first novel. This is a psychological history, concerned above all with a network of relationships and shows how the tragedy at the core of the novel is the result of the tensions generated by society.
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Stack Stratford Fiction SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available (Available) A05163376
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The author has used a real-life nineteenth century murder, the first to be committed in the young settlement of New Plymouth, as the central event of her first novel. This is a psychological history, concerned above all with a network of relationships and shows how the tragedy at the core of the novel is the result of the tensions generated by society.

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