Authors: Jack Lasenby
I am grateful for the assistance of Creative New Zealand—the Arts Council of New Zealand. Their grant in 2007 helped me complete work on this book.
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First published in 2010
This edition published in 2010
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Copyright © Jack Lasenby 2010
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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Lasenby, Jack.
The haystack / Jack Lasenby.
ISBN 978 1 8695 0852 4 (pbk.)
ISBN 978 0 7304 4608 8 (epub)
[1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Depressions—1929—Fiction.
3. Waharoa (N.Z.)—Fiction] I. Title.
NZ823.2—dc 22
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