{"product_id":"1515289","title":"Young Country by Kerry Hines","description":"This book is a collection of poetry by 21st-century writer Kerry Hines, alongside images by 19th-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burned bush and rising buildings. The book features many Williams and his housemates Tom and Alex; ethnographer Elsdon Best; notorious criminals and the judges who sentenced them; the mythic creature Shellycoat who accompanied the Scottish settlers; wives, prostitutes, and “hallelujah lassies”; and visiting professor Robert Wallace, who cast an outsider view on this new society. Together, the stunning photographs and poems of Young Country offer a meditation on how we capture the present and re-present the past, on the parallels between building a community and authoring a text, and on the possibilities that expansive fiction offers to documented truth. This 2014 Auckland University Press Hardback is in \u003cb\u003e near mint condition\u003c\/b\u003e. Dj in very good condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781869408237 SKU: 1515289 \u003ci\u003eThis image is of the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48528047800597,"sku":"1515289","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1515289.jpg?v=1725872695","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.live\/products\/1515289","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}