After leaving school, Sargeson worked in a Hamilton law office and studied for his law degree. His father was a storekeeper and later the town clerk, and Frank was the second of his four children. Author Biographyįrank Sargeson was born on March 23, 1903, in Hamilton, New Zealand.
In A Great Day, Sargeson avoids any overt moralizing and leaves the story to speak for itself, inserting many subtle clues within the text to enable the reader to make sense of the final incident. The story illustrates the spare, compressed nature of Sargeson's art (almost all his stories are very short), as well as his use of informal, colloquial language and working-class characters.
This short tale of an early morning fishing trip undertaken by two friends culminates in a shocking, and surprising, act of violence and betrayal. Kate Shepherd James Siena Billy Sullivan Stephen Vitiello John Waters. He deliberately avoided using literary English, and most of his stories, which are often told in the first person, sound like an ordinary person speaking naturally.Ī Great Day is one of Sargeson's most admired stories. Beginning in the 1930s, he was instrumental in creating a genuine New Zealand literature that was not derived from British or American models. Sargeson is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. James Baldwin, in full James Arthur Baldwin, (born August 2, 1924, New York, New Yorkdied December 1, 1987, Saint-Paul, France), American essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the United States and, later, through much of western Europe. It was reprinted in Sargeson's Collected Stories in 1964 (reprinted, 1965). A Great Day, a short story by New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, was first published in Sargeson's collection of stories A Man and His Wife (Christchurch, New Zealand, 1940).
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