The Name on the Door is Not Mine

A selection of twelve stories written over some sixty years, new ones alongside older ones revised for the book. Many follow a New Zealand writer or academic, often middle-aged and unsure of himself, abroad: a scholar in Paris has an affair while his wife edits Flaubert; a writer visits a dying friend near Sydney in 1988; an older novelist marries the widow of a younger critic in Croatia. Another story, narrated by a woman, is set in 1960s Auckland, and one retells a famous poets' marriage. In the long title story an Auckland academic at a Canadian university moves into the office of a poet who vanished in the Austrian Alps. The settings include the South of France, San Francisco and Oxford.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

First published

2016

Author's age

84 when first published

ISBN

9781877505812 (Allen & Unwin, New Zealand)