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Oct 19, 2024 · Like Margaret Mahy, Maurice Gee has carved an indelible path in New Zealand literature. He is simply one of New Zealand’s greatest ever writers for both children and adults.
Interpellating Maurice Gee contribution to critical readings of adolescents in youth literature, Trites's position is essentially Foucauldian with some important qualifications over subjectivity. Hale points out that Trites's model for coming of age does not entirely work with Gee (p. 94), whose characters might grow up but remain
It seems to me that neither good writing, nor the ability to tell a 'story' well, are things that 'pass' as far as readers are concerned. Indeed, to be quite empirical about this, Gee's sales records, high by New Zealand fiction standards, seem to support this view. Gee's 'kind of writing' clearly registers his consciousness of, and ad
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Gee, Maurice (1931– ), one of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists, born in Whakatane, passed much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson (now contained by Auckland’s urban sprawl), and this background plays a major role in his fiction. Again and again his plots are set in Henderson, usually under another name, or other small towns...
Maurice Gee is a multiple award-winning novelist. A Glorious Morning, Comrade (1976), Plumb (1979), andThe Burning Boy (1991) each received prizes for Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards in their corresponding years of publication. He has twice received the Esther Glen Award at the LIANZA Children's Book Awards, first in 1986 for Motherstone, an...
Watch our Going Westshort animated film based on Gee's classic bookChristchurch City Libraries interviewAug 6, 2024 · Mr Gee is a solemnly earnest writer, but Plumb carries conviction as an honest chronicle of the life and times of a New Zealand family through two generations; many of the facts have been...
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand and overseas, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards, the James Tait Black ...
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Aug 6, 2024 · Father of twelve, Plumb in old age recalls his long life in a series of flashbacks, which unfortunately interrupt the continuity of his story and do little to heighten the tale or hold the...
