Death Of The Body by C.K. Stead - ISBN: 9781846554711
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Mind, body, and domestic chaos collide in this witty, intelligent thriller.

Death Of The Body

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    4 February 2013

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Summary

“Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino” - Jackie Wullschl ger, Financial Times

Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his problems. Harry’s wife has turned his study into a sufi shrine where she sits cross-legged and chants for hours on end: “I am not this body…” And Harry doesn’t know it yet but the Drug Squad have taken up residence in his kitchen so as to ob…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781846554711
ISBN-10:1846554713
Author:C.K. Stead
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:The Harvill Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:4 February 2013
Weight:182g
Dimensions:14mm x 135mm x 215mm
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Death Of The Body by C.K. Stead - ISBN: 9781846554711
135 × 215 mm
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A4
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About The Author

C.K. Stead

C. K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland until 1986. In 1984, he was awarded the CBE for services to New Zealand literature. He has published ten volumes of poetry, two volumes of stories, and several works of criticism. He also edited the Penguin Modern Classics Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield and published several novels, including The Secret History of Modernism and Mansfield.

In March 2010, C.K. Stead won the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for ‘Last Season’s Man’.

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