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The last four stories in Maurice Gee's collection A Glorious Morning, Comrade (1975) concern old men. All of them are Gee's attempts to portray his own grandfather, a charismatic figure he finally captured in the novel Plumb, the first of a trilogy.
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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 interviewMaurice Gough Gee. Born: August 22, 1931, Whaketane, New Zealand (age 93) Notable Works: “A Glorious Morning, Comrade”. “Access Road”. “Blindsight”. “Crime Story”. “Ellie and the Shadow Man”.
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GEE, Maurice (Gough) 1931-PERSONAL: Born August 22, 1931, in Whakatane, New Zealand; son of Leonard (a carpenter) and Lyndahl (Chapple) Gee; married Margaretha Garden (a librarian), 1970; children: Nigel (from a previous marriage), Emily, Abigail.
Gee wrote on through the decades, gifting us Going West, Crime Story, Ellie and the Shadow Man, Blindsight and finally, in 2009, Access Road. Hearing it was to be his last novel felt like bereavement: sadness tinged with the tiniest flutter of relief that the itching and scratching might be over.
by Maurice Gee; A Glorious Morning Comrade (1975) A Glorious Morning Comrade (1975) A collection of short stories: The widow. A sleeping face. The losers. ...
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For the next ten years, Gee learned to write—to find his writing voice, develop his style, and establish an audience. He published eleven stories between 1955 and 1961, the years leading up to his first published novel in 1962.
