![]() ![]() Though it's a huge, ambitious work that aspires to portray the clash between Maori and European cultures, even as it attempts to mythicize the lives of its three peculiar heros, ''The Bone People'' never quite lives up to its billing. Reading ''The Bone People,'' one wonders whether the judges of these awards were not a little influenced by the story of Keri Hulme's heroic efforts to write and publish her novel. The book, which has just been published in this country by the Louisiana State University Press, would subsequently win the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, the Mobil Pegasus Prize for Maori Literature and Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. TWENTY years in the writing, ''The Bone People'' was turned down by virtually every major New Zealand publisher before it was brought out last year by Spiral, a local feminist collective. ![]()
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