- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (10 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571170145
- ISBN-13: 978-0571170142
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 527,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Was poet Rex Petley a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the gulf? His friend Jack Skeat is drawn to examine the landscapes of their childhood, going west from Wellington to Auckland, as he attempts to unravel the mystery of Petley's life.
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. He has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Britain and numerous awards and prizes in New Zealand. He is the author of both adult and children's novels, including the award-winning trilogy Plumb.
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This review is from: Going West (Paperback)
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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"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. |
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