Jeffrey Moussaleff Masson. Slipping into Paradise - Why I live in New Zealand.(Book Review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2005| | Copyright

Jeffrey Moussaleff Masson. Slipping into Paradise--Why I live in New Zealand. Random House: Toronto, August 2004. 248 pp.

Slipping into Paradise--Why I live in New Zealand by Jeffrey Moussaleff Masson is a strange mixture of biography, history, tourist guide, and travelogue--not a utopian study or dream. As a born and bred New Zealander, it is a delight to read a book that is so full of praise of one's country by someone so pleased to have chosen to live in it. If this book were a biography, I would accuse the author of hagiography. If it was a novel, it would be a ...

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