As their freinds leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.
It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna shoreline of Auckland, where the artist Melior Farbro grew his vegetables and let Cecilia Skyways follow her own form of Zen Buddhism in his garden hut. Where Curl Skidmore, his brilliant young head full of novels waiting to be unravelled, could dream of God, Fame, Nirvana, Great Love, or maybe just sex. Where not even the harbourfront strike of 1951 could convince them that life wasn't about poetry and painting and potential.
- ISBN10 1860460801
- ISBN13 9781860460807
- Publish Date 16 November 1995 (first published 5 July 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Harvill Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English