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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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Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tips of boards very very slightly bumped and pages tanned. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has wear to tips, including a 1/4" tear top of rear flap fold. Part 1 of the Plumb Trilogy and best known work of Gee, a New Zealand writer. Also considered one of the best novels ever written in New Zealand; in fact, in 2018 50 New Zealand literary experts voted it the best novel of the last 50 years. 272 pages. Seller Inventory # 21356
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Condition: very good. Gently used. May include previous owner's signature or bookplate on the front endpaper, sticker on back and/or remainder mark on text block. Seller Inventory # 9780571112791-3
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