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The Gee-spot, Roger Robinson
Blindsight Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143020234 Alice Ferry, narrator and co-protagonist of Maurice Gee’s new novel, is a mycologist – an expert on fungi. That is, her professional life is devoted to studying spongy, fragile, morbid life-forms that lurk…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The dark night of the decent bloke, Peter Wells
The Scornful Moon Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018752 Anyone who has heard Maurice Gee read can summon up his tone of voice: discerning, patient and artful. He is a shrewd observer of the human condition with, at times, an…
Tagged with: Issue 63, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Peter Wells, Spring 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Variations on the familiar, Lawrence Jones
Ellie and the Shadow Man Maurice Gee Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0141004177 Responses to Maurice Gee’s Ellie and the Shadow Man, his fourteenth adult novel and his twenty-sixth book, will probably vary between the extremes marked by two of my…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Secrets and lies, Fleur Beale
Love and Other Excuses Jane Westaway Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 28 3 Hostel Girl Maurice Gee Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130653 X Jerome William Taylor Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 29 1 I started reading Love and Other…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Issue 42, Jane Westaway, Longacre, Maurice Gee, Penguin, William Taylor
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
What do you think of New Zealand? Lloyd James
The Hard Light Stuart Hoar Penguin, $29.95 ISBN 0 14027505 3 Live Bodies Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95 ISBN 0 140273808 4 Burn my head in Heaven John Pule Penguin, $24.95 ISBN 0 14027374 3 Last year I read Drowning, a…
Tagged with: Issue 34, John Pule, Lloyd Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Stuart Hoar
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Surprising ourselves, Lawrence Jones
Loving Ways Maurice Gee Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 140 25789 6 Little Masters Damien Wilkins VUP, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 298 8 The reader of Loving Ways will quickly recognise family resemblances to earlier Gee novels. The structure within two…
Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Damien Wilkins, Issue 25, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A fat boy, a creek and personal responsibility, Judith Holloway
Maurice Gee’s latest children’s novel, The Fat Man, this year won the AIM Children’s Book of the Year award, the AIM Junior Fiction award and the Esther Glen award (which is made annually by the Library Association for the most…
Tagged with: Issue 19, Judith Holloway, Maurice Gee, Spring 1995
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
Most significant work in NZ realism, Lawrence Jones
Crime Story Maurice Gee Penguin, $29.95 The Fat Man Maurice Gee Viking, $15.95 In 1977, writing a letter to the Listener, Maurice Shadbolt commented that although he was “far more interested as a writer, in nineteenth century New Zealand”, he…
Tagged with: Issue 15, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Spring 1994, Viking
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Gee Whizz, Elizabeth Smither
Going West Maurice Gee, Viking, 1992, $39.95 Rem tene, verba sequentur – I have it, like an archivist, on a filched catalogue card. For the novel: ‘Grasp the subject and the words will follow’. For the poem, the reverse: Verba…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 9, Maurice Gee, Viking, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Scorching scrutiny, Roger Robinson
The Burning Boy Maurice Gee Viking, Auckland, 1990, $39.95 The Burning Boy does for Nelson what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York. It submits, that is, a community to scorching scrutiny. It constructs a narrative form exactly appropriate…