Talking About O'Dwyer

by Dr C. K. Stead (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.17

  In his new bachelor flat, too close for comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past. When O'Dwyer, his colleague and follow expatriate New Zealander dies, Newall attends the funeral, and learns a secret about O'Dwyer.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.02

  Two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend their colleague's funeral. Afterward Newall reveals the secret that O'Dwyer took to the grave. During the Battle of Crete in World War II a Maori soldier died in circumstances that led to his family placing a curse on O'Dwyer. How did the soldier die? Why was O'Dwyer responsible? Gradually Newall tells all. But as he moves in space and timefrom his childhood in New Zealand to Crete, from Oxford to Croatia, reflecting on wartime and peacetime, and the generations that have lived through bothit becomes clear that the story is not just O'Dwyer's, but Newall's as well.