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Jan 1, 1978 · Gee writes as George Plumb, an old man recalling his life, from ministry in the Presbyterian church to time in jail for sedition; from small towns in New Zealand to Berkeley, California; from the birth of his 12 children to the death of the love of his life, and wife, Edie.
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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. He is a Presbyterian clergyman with an unyielding and stern personality and a strong belief in his own principles, who becomes a pacifist and rationalist , and he and his ...
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. Gee discloses that...
Mar 1, 2010 · Plumb. Maurice Gee. Penguin Books Limited, Mar 1, 2010 - Fiction - 264 pages. Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces...
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Jul 3, 1993 · With his prize-winning fifth novel, Plumb, Maurice Gee became one of New Zealand's premier writers. Now his 10th novel, Going West, is attracting fresh critical and popular acclaim, both here and in Britain.
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption.
Jan 1, 2001 · The family is dominated by George Plumb, who was a Presbyterian minister who became a pacifist and a rationalist. Even after his death, the remaining of his 12 children feel his influence on their lives.
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