Miramar Dog

Denis Edwards

2001年8月 · Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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New Zealand. A great place to bring up kids? Or a darker world, where money is being made, people are being hurt, where illegal gambling and slygrogging are the norm? Eight-year-old Denis Edward is in the middle, observing events swirling around him. He doesn't care. There are more important things on his mind. Alliances have to be made. There are persecutions to be organised. And coming straight down the calendar at him is a showdown. It's a tough time for a Miramar Dog. In this rich, often hilarious memoir, Denis Edwards dwells with affection on the hard-case humour, the scams and the childhood intrigues that made up daily life in the Wellington suburb of Miramar in the 1950s.

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Denis Edwards was born and bred in Miramar, Wellington. He is one of a family of six children. Educated at Holy Cross, Marist Miramar primary schools and later St Patrick's College, he went from school to the New Zealand Police, serving as a cadet and constable for three years. Denis Edwards worked for nine years as a paramedic and dispatcher for the St John Ambulance Association before turning an interest in writing into a career. He has written for almost every magazine and newspaper in New Zealand and for newspapers in Australia and England. He has been a finalist in the New Zealand Sports Journalist Awards and the Qantas Press Awards. Miramar Dog is his fourth book. Vows; priests and nuns speak out was also published by Penguin. Eden was published by Time Capsule Pubishing. Killer Moves is published by Scholastic. He lives in Auckland's Mount Eden, close to the cafes and some distance from the Mount Eden Prison.