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Article: Taste of Texas deep in heart of NZ
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- June 23, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 Sunday Star-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IN THE United States, reviewers have hailed Body of Knowledge -- a
sprawling, darkly comic saga about a secret feud in the imaginary
town of Bernice that lasts through three generations -- as the best
Texan novel since Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove and Cormac
McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. One of the odd things about the
book, however, is that it was devised entirely in Auckland.
The author, Carol Dawson, was a solo mother raising three children
in Herne Bay when she completed the novel, originally titled Ransom's
Lives. Working obsessively deep into the night, she put together a
thousand-page manuscript in eight months and then pared it down to
about half that length.
Dawson was born in ...