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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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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 057111279X
- ISBN 13 9780571112791
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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Book Description hardback with dustjacket. first edition. Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption. What personal price is this man prepared to pay in the pursuit of his conscience, no matter what the consequences are for those he loves? Bookplate of John Stacpoole inside cover, Epsom trust sticker to rear endpaper, pages browned, offsetting, foxing to endpapers. Seller Inventory # 10162584
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Book Description 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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780571112791
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