Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pākehā history / Peter Wells.

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Wells, Peter, 1950-2019 [author.]

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computer

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online resource

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9780994147370
0994147376
0994147368
9780994147363

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dear OliverDDC classification:

993 23

LOC classification:

DU420

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Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Contents; Red Letter Day; Obscure Individuals; Dear Oliver; How to Read a Letter; The Coming Out Letter; To Whom It May Concern; How to Write a Letter; The Business Letter; Polly; What's in a Name?; Local Hero; Dear Heroix; Silence Like a Bruise; The Failure of Language; Afterword; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Northe family tree; Copyright.

Summary: When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders.

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When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders.

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