The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont

Martin Edmond

11/2013 · Auckland University Press

Táto e‑kniha

This is the record of the author's powerful and moving search for the artist Philip Clairmont which mingles elements of biography and art history with a personal quest. It is an unusual and brilliant piece of writing by the author of The Autobiography of My Father, which transcends categorization.

O autorovi

Martin Edmond, born in Ohakune, is now based in Sydney but is often in New Zealand. Several of his screenplays have been produced as award-winning films and four of his books have been shortlisted in the national book awards; his Chronicle of the Unsung won the biography category of the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. He was the 2004 Writing Fellow at The University of Auckland, in 2007 won a CLL Writers’ Award to support writing Zone of the Marvellous, and was a Michael King Writers’ Centre Writer in Residence in 2010.