The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home

Author(s): Ian Wedde

NZ Biography & Memoir

From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his restless German and Scottish great grandparents, and of his wandering parents, Wedde is always looking over his shoulder as he writes. His companion throughout is his twin brother Dave, who shared their first home-their mother Linda's womb-and who, as the book ends, hosts a lunch where the brothers raise their glasses to the transit lounges of their lives. Affectionate, funny, sad, analytical, but above all honest, The Grass Catcher is at once a moving personal memoir and an engaging and reflective essay on the nature of memory.

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General Fields

  • : 9780864739384
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : 0.48988
  • : May 2014
  • : 1.25 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.25 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ian Wedde
  • : hardback with dustjacket
  • : English
  • : 824.2
  • : good-very good
  • : 288