Owen S Marshall

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A Many Coated Man

Owen Marshall

Owen Marshall (born 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand) is the pen name of Owen Marshall Jones, a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a

Owen Marshall Counselor at Law

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law was an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former law professor Jerry McNeely, that starred actor Arthur Hill.

A Many Coated Man

What happens when an ordinary man becomes a messiah? A witty, prescient and eloquent satire by one of New Zealand's finest writers.Far into the twenty-first century, Albous Slaven's life is spectacularly and irrevocably altered after he hangs for an instant from a power line. While recuperating, he ...

Tunes for Bears to Dance To: The Shaping of a New Zealand Writer (BWB Texts Book 24)

'I became aware of the fallibility of the real, that the splendidly detailed objective world of sound and colours, shapes and textures was not completely opaque, and that beneath it could be glimpsed the shimmer of things of great horror and ineffable joy.'He is one of New Zealand’s finest regional ...

Living As A Moon

Shortlisted for the NZ Post Book Awards, these 25 stories are at once arresting, moving, funny and full of insight into the human condition. Being a celebrity impersonator, says Aussie Elton John, is like living your life as a moon. 'We give up our identity and become just a reflection of another pe...

Harlequin Rex: A Novel

An intriguing novel revolving around the varied reactions to a new, catastrophic disease.With the advent of the new millennium comes a new disease - Harlequin Rex - and a variety of reactions to it. The men and women in this intriguing novel find themselves caught up in a terrifying novelty, and all...

The Larnachs

Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it. William James Mudie Larnach's name resonates in New Zealand history - the politician and self - made man who buil...

Drybread

Rich and subtle, this is a compelling novel from one of New Zealand's finest writers.It is a moving study of love and disappointment, of the harm we do to each other, knowingly and unknowingly, of the power and significance of landscape in our lives. A graveyard is all that's left of the remote Cent...

Sojourn in Arles

A chance encounter leads to an appreciation of the spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers in this evocative short story from one of New Zealand's finest writers.David Wilson takes a trip around Europe after the death of his wife. With limited funds, he accepts the offer from a stranger to s...

Carnival Sky

Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold.