- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (NZ) (4 Jan 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571168329
- ISBN-13: 978-0571168323
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,150,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is Jack Skeat's story, a literary life of his friend, Rex Petley, a fellow New Zealander. Maurice Gee is the author of "The Burning Boy".
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers, for both adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the New Zealand Fiction Award. He has also won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2003 he received an inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 he received an a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee's novels include the Plumb trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies and The Scornful Moon. He has also written a number of children's novels, the most recent being Salt and Gool. Maurice lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Witi Ihimaera (Whale Rider) may have garnered the international acclaim, but Maurice Gee is easily New Zealand's greatest living writer: prolific, diverse and never less than excellent. Going West is his 'other' masterpiece (aside from Plumb). Big themes are developed through small-time, domestic tragedies. It's literary, intelligent and utterly accessible. Un-put-downable, and not in a Dan Brown sense, either. For anyone who likes Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Kazuo Ishiguro, etc... fiction for grown-ups.
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Ranked among the 50 best New Zealand Books by the NZ Listener
26 Jan 2010
Format:Paperback
"For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider - takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and is drawn to examine their lives. Going West has long been regarded as one of the most autobiographical of Maurice Gee's novels." --Penguin review
"Stern, stoic, spare. Half a century of impeccably authentic New Zealand lives. The wars between and within the sexes consummately, compassionately anatomised. Men are from Mars; women are from Kohimarama." --David Hill, The New Zealand Listener
The New Zealand Book Council and Colenso produced a wonderful animation for the book[...].
I was drawn into the almost-familiar time and space of Auckland 40/50 years ago. Gee's prose is descriptive but flows naturally, the characters are warmly drawn. For me the plot was secondary to Gee's vision, which was so real I could almost smell it.
"Stern, stoic, spare. Half a century of impeccably authentic New Zealand lives. The wars between and within the sexes consummately, compassionately anatomised. Men are from Mars; women are from Kohimarama." --David Hill, The New Zealand Listener
The New Zealand Book Council and Colenso produced a wonderful animation for the book[...].
I was drawn into the almost-familiar time and space of Auckland 40/50 years ago. Gee's prose is descriptive but flows naturally, the characters are warmly drawn. For me the plot was secondary to Gee's vision, which was so real I could almost smell it.
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