The Oxford book of New Zealand short stories Book

	Introduction
	Acknowledgements
	From Christmas Day in New Zealand	1
	Married for His Money	12
	One Lady at Wairakei	21
	Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill)	29
	Hantock's Dissertation	35
	The Wind Blows	39
	An Indiscreet Journey	43
	The Perfect Mother	54
	Home Front	65
	A Great Day	72
	Old Man's Story	78
	Another Kind of Life	83
	Coming and Going	87
	School Picnic	95
	A Dalmatian Woman	103
	A Girl with Ambition	106
	Along Rideout Road that Summer	109
	Cross my heart and cut my throat	123
	The Reservoir	128
	The Bath	138
	Up the River with Mrs Gallant	144
	One of the Titans	150
	Corrective Training	154
	Morning Talk	161
	A Glorious Morning, Comrade	166
	The People Before	172
	A New Zealand Elegy	190
	An Opinion of the Ballet	210
	Fog	213
	The Silk	218
	Journey	225
	Between Earth and Sky	235
	Dandy Edison for Lunch	238
	Crocodile	253
	The Tennis Player	259
	Valley Day	267
	Mumsie and Zip	275
	Jack Kerouac Sat Down Beside the Wanganui River and Wept	282
	Big Brother, Little Sister	288
	The Poet's Wife	301
	The Gringos	308
	Jim's Elvis	314
	One Whale, Singing	317
	The Gift	325
	Outing	335
	Archaeology	340
	Who's That Dancing With My Mother?	351
	The Wife who Spoke Japanese in her Sleep	356
	A Veil Dropped from a Great Height	365
	Baby Clare	369
	Biographical notes	379
	Glossary	387