Back of His Head

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"Raymond Thomas Lawrence was one of the great literary colossi to bestride the twentieth century. He turned his upbringing in conservative Canterbury and participation in the Algerian War of Independence into a series of novels that dazzled the world, and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seven years after Lawrence's death, however, the four trustees of the literary trust set up to memorialise New Zealand's greatest writer are facing rising costs and dwindling visitor numbers at the Residence, while fending off a self-appointed biographer and confronting the secrets of their own intimate relationships with The Master"--Publisher information.

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Patrick Evans is the author of three previous novels and a number of plays. His other books include The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature (1990), The Long Forgetting: Postcolonial Literary Culture in New Zealand (2007), An Inward Sun: The Novels of Janet Frame (1971) and Janet Frame (1977).