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The Lovelock Version
''The Lovelock Version'' is a long historical novel by New Zealand writer Maurice Shadbolt that calls into question the interpretation of the past through the narrative process. Published in Auckland and London in 1980 and in New York in 1981, it won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction〔(NZ book awards )〕 and the James Wattie Award.〔(Wattie prizes )〕
==Magic realism and history==
Maurice Shadbolt's novel appeared mid-way through his career and marked a new departure. Until then his fiction had engaged with contemporary New Zealand, although with backward glances as part of the interaction between generations. ''The Lovelock Version'' is the first to deal directly with the pioneer years of the 19th century and their aftermath. The Gallipoli Campaign episode, in which sons of his main characters are engaged towards the end of the novel, is later taken up in his play ''Once on Chunuk Bair'' (1982). Though the accounts in this later section of Hillary Lovelock's attempted hippy commune on the Porangi River and of Frank Lovelock's withdrawal there to escape police pursuit hark back to Shadbolt's earlier fiction, the Maori Wars episodes near the start of ''The Lovelock Version'' were to become the subject of his later trilogy, ''Season of the Jew'' (1986), ''Monday's Warriors'' (1990) and ''The House of Strife'' (1993).〔(Author entry from ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998) )〕
Shadbolt commented on this side of his work that he tried to use native history, tradition, landscape and folklore as active components.〔(New Zealand Herald )〕 In so doing he takes his work out of the sphere of pure historical fiction into the world of Magic realism in a novel indebted in part to Gabriel Marquez's ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', especially in its sweep over several generations.〔(Graham Reid )〕 The novel is no simple glorification of the colonial enterprise but at times becomes a criticism which reflects the author's Left Wing politics.〔Telegraph obituary, (3 Nov. 2004 )〕
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