Author Description

Horse is almost twenty, a college drop-out with a job in a steel mill and a girlfriend named Fern with golden brown hair down to her waist. But his drinking, poetry writing, and above all a predilection for the disreputable combine to make him an outsider kicking against the conventions of asmall college town in the 1940's. Horse is the only novel of James K. Baxter, New Zealand's greatest poet.