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The first novel is narrated by the eighty-year-old George Plumb, not in chronological order but by looking back through his own memories, and covering the 1890s to the 1940s.
The first book, Plumb (1978), covers the period from the 1890s through 1949; it is based on the career of Gee’s grandfather, a Presbyterian minister who was tried for heresy by his church and jailed for sedition by the state.
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Jan 1, 1978 · The narrator, George Plumb, is a Presbyterian minister who in the early sections of the book struggles to align his socialist and pacifist views with the teachings of the church at that time. He has a high-minded mission to do moral good during his life, while treating others, especially his family, with judgement and coldness.
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Plumb acts as a commentator upon Meg's narrative before it is even written. It is largely because of the ·importance of the interplay between the two novels, that I have chosen to include in this study both of the parts of Gee's proposed trilogy which have been published to date. I do not suggest that either Plumb
Jul 3, 1993 · Gee built on Plumb's rich possibilities in Meg and Sole Survivor, which completed the trilogy, then wrote two novels set in Nelson, Prowlers and The Burning Boy. Those books have done well, but the novel Gee started “almost carelessly” in late 1989 seems set to eclipse them.
Aug 6, 2024 · [Plumb] is narrated in the first person and tells the story of George Plumb, lawyer, parson and ex-parson who places conscience before career and suffers an unhappy life....
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The first novel is narrated by the eighty-year-old George Plumb, not in chronological order but by looking back through his own memories, and covering the 1890s to the 1940s.
