Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake
By (Author) Jane Bowron
By (author) Pauline O'Regan
Awa Press
Awa Press
1st February 2012
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Reportage, journalism or collected columns
Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)
993.8304
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 127mm, Height 178mm, Spine 20mm
336g
Description
Since Old Bucky & Me was released it has won praise as a powerful, honest and enduring account of the Christchurch earthquake and its terrible and continuing aftermath. Crowds have turned up to hear Jane Bowron speak at stand-room only events around the country. This new edition contains all of Bowron's writings up to the first anniversary of the second fatal quake on February 22. Movingly written and full of unexpected humour, Bowron's stories are a rare and priceless account of how human beings can survive and overcome even the most terrible of tragedies in the most ordinary of ways.
Reviews
Bowron hits just the right note, with wry observational humor and insight. She doesn't big-note emotionally but the pain, bewilderment, and determination to keep on going are all there." Peter Wells, author, Lucky Bastard
"Bowron has given us an intelligent, articulate and moving record of one of the major events in our history." Paul Little, North and South
"Quite simply, it is a remarkable contemporary record of a major event in this country's history." Abbie Jury, Waikato Times
Tomorrow's Schools Today
"Obligatory reading . . . Bowron was uniquely placed, not simply because she was living in the central city, but also because she had just the journalistic eye you wanted at such a time: game (setting forth on her bicycle), wry, witty, and wonderfully observant, immune to bullshit and platitudes, conveying the fullest sense of life . . . Columnist of the year at next year's media awards [Bowron] better be." Guy Somerset, Listener
Author Bio
Jane Bowron is a freelance journalist based in Christchurch. Television critic for The Dominion Post and columnist for The Dominion Post and The Press, she has been a TV reviewer for The Evening Post, The Sunday Star-Times, National Radio's Nine to Noon, Radio Live and Newstalk ZB, a media commentator for Newstalk ZB and a feature writer for The Sunday Star-Times.
