Maurice Gee: Life and Work

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for TV and film. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Gee's life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming "man in the grey cardy” alongside his unsettling stories.

Summary

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for TV and film. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Gee's life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming “man in the grey cardy” alongside his unsettling stories.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Barrowman
• Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780864739926
• ISBN: 978-0-86473-992-6
• No. of pages: 543
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 48 mm
• Weight: 1225 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies