Told in prose that excites and challenges, Jones' novel offers a meditation on the curious workings of fame as well as an exploration into the national myth of the first celebrated New Zealanders. In 1905 a motley group of young New Zealand rugby players sets out by steamer on a journey to the other side of the world. A year later most of them are back. Bearing scars of illness and injury they are accorded a hero's welcome the like of which has never been seen in their country before. Their fame has spread before them ...
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Told in prose that excites and challenges, Jones' novel offers a meditation on the curious workings of fame as well as an exploration into the national myth of the first celebrated New Zealanders. In 1905 a motley group of young New Zealand rugby players sets out by steamer on a journey to the other side of the world. A year later most of them are back. Bearing scars of illness and injury they are accorded a hero's welcome the like of which has never been seen in their country before. Their fame has spread before them across three continents. They are the headlines of the day. Only gradually do they understand how, and why, they should thus be chosen. In this hugely affecting account of innocence abroad, Lloyd Jones uses his characters' collective voice to trace their rise from obscurity to kingly fame. Told in prose that excites and challenges at every turn, Jones' novel offers a meditation on the curious workings of fame as well as an exploration into the national myth of the first celebrated New Zealanders. The Book of Fame won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 2001 Montana Book Awards and the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize in 2003.
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In August 1905 a party of young men set sail for England. Amongst them were ordinary farmers and bootmakers, a miner and a bank clerk. Together they made up the All Blacks, an unknown rugby team from Auckland, New Zealand. And they had come to show the world what they could do. What they didn't know was that they were bound for fame. The first game was in Devon, 'played in golden farm light, a surprising victory'. By December they had become the 'wonderful All Blacks' who had beaten Yorkshire 40-0, England 15-0 and Ireland 15-0. People stopped them in the streets. In this melding of true history and imagination, Lloyd Jones has recreated an unforgettable journey from innocence to celebrity.
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