Out Of The Mist And Steam. A Memoir

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Tandem Publishing
Publisher Place: New Zealand
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 216 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Here for the first time is this controversial writers real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child - talented but tormented; the eventual separation from his family; violence, crime, borstal and finally prison in England. How he turned his life around to become, not only New Zealands best selling novelist, but also a spokesperson for a large number of underprivileged New Zealanders, a controversial columnist and the initiator of the brilliantly successful Books in Homes schemes is both moving and compelling reading. About the Author Alan Duff, one of New Zealands best known writers, is the author of four novels, a non-fiction work, a novella and two childrens books.

ISBN: 9781877178580