Dark Night: Walking with McCahon by Martin Edmond review

Martin Edmond has written the best – the riskiest and most fully imagined – book there is on Colin McCahon.

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19th August, 2011

Review

Whatever else they might do, the words “New Zealand non-fiction” don’t exactly stir the soul. If the national book awards of the past decade or so are any measure, the best of local non-fiction is defined not by flair or idiosyncrasy – not by writing – but by hard work and high page counts. Amid the doorstop biographies, no-fact-left-out studies of the natural world and thick slabs of social history, it’s always a relief to encounter a new book by Martin Edmond. Too personal to be called histories, too flagrantly imaginative ...

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