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His first published novel was The Big Season (1962), [14] a novel about a rugby player who becomes interested in a burglar and the burglar's girlfriend.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
He published eleven stories between 1955 and 1961, the years leading up to his first published novel in 1962. First Novels Published Even though the mid- to late 1950s marked his apprenticeship, Gee's early stories still were considered significant.
A year later The Big Season, Gee’s first published novel, was greeted enthusiastically. In the Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune, Louis Johnson wrote that it refuted the criticism that the New Zealand novel shows our way of life as dull.
Gee’s first novel, The Big Season, was published in 1962. Reviewers throughout his career have praised the spare elegance of his prose 16 but struggle with the complicated, sometimes violent price of trying to do the right thing. 17
Gee's first story was published in Landfall in 1955; his first book, The Big Season (1962), showed his interest in New Zealand small town life which he later developed to great effect. His early fiction includes A Special Flower (1965), My Father's Den (1972), and Games of Choice (1976).
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Gee's first book, The Big Season, was published in 1962. He has since produced nearly two dozens novels and collections of short stories and his work has appeared in such publications as...
