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The Frigate Bird(Pacific Writers S.)

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This, Alistair Campbell's first novel, is as rich and compelling as the poetry for which he is well known. Set partly in the Cook Islands, partly in a New Zealand psychiatric hospital, and partly within the confines of the narrator's mind, it is about a search--for love, sanity and the innocence of childhood. Along the way, it introduces some of the most bizarre and colourful characters to have appeared in Pacific fiction: Big Mouth, the Minotaur, Mr Soo, and the demonic Sidewinder.
Alternating between the comic and the sinister, fantasy and madness, Polynesian spirituality and European angst, The Frigate Bird is a powerful work by one of the Pacific's foremost writers.

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Genre: FICTION_GENERAL, FICTION
Format: Paperback
Published: 1989
Pages: 204
Publisher: Heinemann Reed
ISBN: 9780790000466

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