The Godwits Fly by Robin Hyde
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Is There No Sale for a Book of This Kind?
Piano as symbolic capital in new zealand fiction, says Kirstin moffett. The ninete century british literary tradition was steeped in the trope of the piano playing gentlewoman. In iris hyde's autobiographical protagonist turns to literature rather than music for her creative outlet and to passion ethan propriety for emotional and sexual satisfaction. Eliza allines herself with her socialist father, who seeks to define himself as an authentically working class - while piano playing is a sign of bourgeois conformity. As carlie admires the little pink disks of her cucumber and lemon finger manicures, she plays the piano in the hope of attracting trevorjen,. whom she views
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