'Oliver's 'Unposted, Autumn Leaves: A Memoir In Essays' begins with his childhood growing up in the hilly suburb of Brooklyn-west, Wellington, New Zealand, in the '50s and'60s. He attended St. Bernard's Primary School, Brooklyn, then Marist Brothers, Newtown, and finally, St. Patrick's College, Cambridge Terrace. This period is extensively covered, including his post-schooldays, right through to the close of the '60s, in a Wellington that no lonfer exists, captured in the essays Chalk, Talk and Asphalt Days, 'A Big Fruity Guy ...', A Small Matter of Demolition, A Nostalgia for Books, and Gnosis, A Spark.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
