The story is about the relationship of a boy to his mostly absent father and other family members, but the background to the story is the dystopia developed in his 1992 Black Rainbow.
BT - Landfall 184 (New Zealand) C6 -The author (b. 1939) was born in Samoa and lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
C7 - December 1992 DA - 12/1992 LA - eng N1 -The Table of Contents adds the subtitle "(Chapter 1 of The Guide to Whistling, a sequel to Black Rainbow). No more appears to have been published.
N2 -The story is about the relationship of a boy to his mostly absent father and other family members, but the background to the story is the dystopia developed in his 1992 Black Rainbow.
PY - 1992 SP - 398 EP - 420 T2 - Landfall 184 (New Zealand) TI - "The Don'ts of Whistling" VL - 46.4 ER -