Author: Philip Houghton
Title: The Shadow of the Land
Description: Hodder & Staughton 1966 Hardback, 224pp. The land is the Rakeahua, or 'that which stands beside the rim of the Earth', a foresaken primeval tract, supporting a dead-end community on the edge of nowhere. It is a land which breaks the men who have striven to penetrate it, yet casts a powerful spell over those who live in its shadow, and particularly over Alexander Main, the newcomer who arrives from England to claim a dubious inheritance. Main's hitherto drifting life takes on a shape and purpose. But man's purpose cannot withstand the Rakeahua, and it is this violent wasteland which is at the centre of Phillip Houghton's strange, brooding and powerful first novel. Dj, ex-lib. Fair.

Keywords: NZ, Fiction


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