Sister Hollywood by C K Stead
Seen from New Zealand during the war, Hollywood seemed to Bill Harper and his family too magical to be real. Bill's sister, Arlene, disappears from home. She is found - having an affair with a producer, arraigned before the UnAmerican Activities Committee and has success as a scriptwriter.
Christian Karlson Karl Stead ONZ, CBE (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.[1] One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. Mansfield: A Novel was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region. He won the 2010 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for 'Last Season's Man'. C. K. Stead was born in Auckland. For much of his career he was Professor of English at the University of Auckland, retiring in 1986 to write full-time. He received a CBE in 1985 and was admitted into the highest honour New Zealand can bestow, the Order of New Zealand in 2007. In August 2015, he was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2015 to 2017
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002712187 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002712180 |
| Title | Sister Hollywood |
| Author | C K Stead |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1994-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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