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Portrait of the artist's wife / Barbara Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: VUP ClassicPublisher: [Wellington, New Zealand]: Victoria University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©1992Edition: [2019 edition]Description: 346 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781776562121
  • 1776562127
Other title:
  • Portrait of the artists wife
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "New Zealand in the 1950s is a place where men do the work and women have the babies. While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her husband, celebrated novelist Jack Macalister, is equally determined to remain the cheerfully philandering and selfish man that he is"-- Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection ANDE Available T00801678
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Victoria University Press is enormously proud to publish this new edition of one of New Zealand's favourite novels, 26 years after it was first published to critical acclaim here and in the UK and US. While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her husband, Jack Macalister, is equally determined to remain the cheerfully philandering and selfish man that he is.

"New Zealand in the 1950s is a place where men do the work and women have the babies. While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her husband, celebrated novelist Jack Macalister, is equally determined to remain the cheerfully philandering and selfish man that he is"-- Back cover.

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