Hastings
eBook - ePub

Hastings

A boy's own adventure

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hastings

A boy's own adventure

About this book

'If I'd been asked to vote on it I would've said I'd landed at the centre of the universe. Standing on our corner of Sylvan Road and Victoria Street, with Te Mata Peak, the Tukituki River and the mad wilderness of Windsor Park to the back of me and the distinctly nonwilderness of Cornwall Park and the misty vista of the Ruahines in front of me, I was the master of all I could barely survey.'

This charming memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known painters is a love letter to his home town, Hastings, and the weirdly innocent world of the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Getting into it
  7. 2. Putting the map on Hastings
  8. 3. Shooting fish in a barrel
  9. 4. Rabbits for beer
  10. 5. The death of Stiffy Merton
  11. 6. They tried to tell us we’re too young
  12. 7. Richard almost gets a brother
  13. 8. Flying a kite
  14. 9. Save the last dance for me
  15. 10. The Peak
  16. 11. Breaking the mould
  17. 12. Ban Irigham
  18. 13. First of six
  19. 14. I got a guts ache
  20. 15. Great balls of fire!
  21. 16. Mowing Molly’s lawns
  22. 17. Tunnelling out of Hastings
  23. 18. Robinson’s Dairy
  24. 19. The naked pie cart
  25. 20. That bastard boxthorn hedge
  26. 21. Cannery row
  27. 22. The Austin Ten-Four Sherborne
  28. 23. Younger than springtime
  29. 24. Ain’t gonna work on McInnes’s farm no more
  30. 25. The great park of Windsor
  31. 26. GJG
  32. 27. Fifth in line
  33. 28. Frankenstein is not the monster
  34. 29. Milkshakes with the devil
  35. 30. Where’s the brick?
  36. Acknowledgements
  37. About the Author
  38. Copyright