Hastings: A boy's own adventure

A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand

‘Frizzell is a painter who has always cared about words’ — Kim Knight, New Zealand Herald

‘A celebration of landscape and culture, history and everyday objects’ — John Daly-Peoples, New Zealand Arts Review

‘Will leave you both laughing and longing for a time when boyhood was one grand adventure’ — Chris Reed, NZ Booklovers

‘Conjuring a world within a moment as seen through Frizzell’s eyes’ — Jack Riddell, Hawke’s Bay Today

‘Presented with such colour, sympathy and vitality’ — Peter Simpson, Kete

‘So much detail to love’ — Catherine Robertson, RNZ’s Afternoons

‘An affectionate portrait of 1950s Hawke’s Bay’ — Elisabeth Easther, Woman’s Weekly

‘Portrays the experience of growing up with a touch of humour and keen insight’ — Jim Sullivan, Otago Daily Times

‘If I’d been asked to vote on it I would’ve said I’d landed at the centre of the universe. Standing on our corner of Sylvan Road and Victoria Street, with Te Mata Peak, the Tukituki River and the mad wilderness of Windsor Park to the back of me and the distinctly nonwilderness of Cornwall Park and the misty vista of the Ruahines in front of me, I was the master of all I could barely survey.’

This charming memoir by one of New Zealand’s best-known painters is a love letter to his home town, Hastings, and the weirdly innocent world of the 1950s and early 1960s.

• | Author: Dick Frizzell
• | Publisher: Massey University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 13, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781991016935
• | ISBN-10: 199101693X