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Butcher Shop
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Butcher Shop
Contributors:
By (Author) Jean Devanny
Publisher:
Auckland University Press
Imprint:
Auckland University Press
Publication Date:
1st January 1981
Country:
New Zealand
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
823
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
250
Dimensions:
Width 210mm, Height 135mm
Description
The Butcher Shop first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic in other words for promoting revolutionary ideas about women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level, the novel is a fast-paced account of how passion and jealousy destroy the lives of a rich and cultured farming family; on another it is a fierce polemic for the freedom of women, which in its frankness was years ahead of its time.
