Drongo by Ian Richards

18 year old Andy Ingle, with his yellow typewriter called Half-Arse under his arm, embarks on one of the great Kiwi road trips, hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Christchurch, over to the West Coast and back up to Auckland. On the way falling in with drug dealers, a washed-out Professor of Literature, members of the Miss Pageant, and a rag-tag collection of some of the most eccentric and entertaining characters to appear in Kiwi fiction.