A Touch of Clay (New Zealand Classics)

By Maurice Shadbolt

Book Overview

By the author of Season of the Jew
After a disastrous love affair and a nervous breakdown, Paul Pike, an ex-lawyer, decides to become a potter. He practices his new craft in idyllic surroundings, but his wish to escape from the modern world is thwarted when land developers threaten his hideaway. A Touch of Clay is the work of a storyteller of rare ability, by an author Anthony Burgess describes as "one writer not afraid to experiment."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195581733
• ISBN13: 9780195581737
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.4" x 5.0"