![]() He concedes to flaws with considerable humility. In doing so, he reveals much about his (awful) early life experiences. It is about what he thinks about the dysfunctional situations his novels portray so vividly. His latest book is part biography and part memoir. What the author thinks and why is only implied. In his novels, Duff uses fictional characters and powerful dialogue to portray the predicaments he has witnessed first-hand. In all, Duff has written 16 published books. The 1996 sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? became a film of the same name in 1999. The power of that book established Duff’s skills as a writer and communicator. The 1994 movie of the book heightened its impact. ![]() His powerful 1990 novel Once Were Warriors alerted the public to the violence and dysfunction in some welfare-dependent Maori households. ![]() ![]() – takes a characteristically thoughtful and constructive look at the pockets of pathological behaviours our welfare state has nurtured for decades.ĭuff’s long-standing concern has been with the sub-world of entrenched, dysfunctional welfare dependency. ![]() Alan Duff’s latest book – A Conversation with My Country: Where we have come from. ![]()
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