C.K. Stead: The Writer At Work

OUP

$39.95

Food for the mind - a rich feast, spiked with piquancy.

Mellow is too bland a word to apply to Stead, because you never know what is around the corner of the next sentence, or what the next uninhibited observation will bring, but he can be kinder than his reputation gives him credit for.

Eminently dip-into-able, yet sophisticated and witty, this collection of literary and autobiographical essays and reviews takes us beyond our own small shores.