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Maurice Gee

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43+ verk 2,219 medlemmar 94 recensioner 11 favoritmärkta

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Maurice Gee of New Zealand is a novelist and author of children's books. Gee's first book, The Big Season, was published in 1962. He has since produced nearly two dozens novels and collections of short stories and his work has appeared in such publications as Arena, Mate, Landfall, Islands, and visa mer Listener. Gee received the New Zealand Book Award in fiction in 1979 for Plumb, in 1982 for Meg, and in 1991 for The Burning Boy. Going West won the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1993. In 1995 The Fat Man won the AIM Children's Book Award for Junior Fiction, as well as The Esther Glen Award, given for the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand literature for children and young adults. He had previously received The Esther Glen Award in 1983 for Motherstone. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Maurice Gee

Salt (2007) 244 exemplar
Under the Mountain (1979) 208 exemplar
The Halfmen of O (1982) 177 exemplar
Plumb (1978) 138 exemplar
In My Father's Den (1972) 113 exemplar
Gool (2008) 105 exemplar
Blindsight (2005) 102 exemplar
The Priests of Ferris (1984) 101 exemplar
Going West (1992) 79 exemplar
Motherstone (1985) 73 exemplar
The Fat Man (1994) 72 exemplar
The Fire Raiser (1986) 71 exemplar
Live Bodies (1998) 70 exemplar
The World Around the Corner (1980) 51 exemplar
Ellie and the Shadow Man (2001) 50 exemplar
Meg (1814) 49 exemplar
The Champion (1989) 46 exemplar
Crime Story (1994) 45 exemplar
The Scornful Moon (2003) 43 exemplar
Access road (2009) 42 exemplar
Sole Survivor (1983) 34 exemplar
Loving Ways (1996) 26 exemplar
The Severed Land (2017) 25 exemplar
The Burning Boy (1990) 24 exemplar
Prowlers (1987) 21 exemplar
Hostel Girl (1999) 17 exemplar
Orchard Street (1998) 12 exemplar
Games of Choice (1976) 12 exemplar
A Glorious Morning, Comrade (1975) 6 exemplar
The Big Season (1964) 6 exemplar
Memory pieces (2019) 6 exemplar
A special flower (1965) 5 exemplar
Maurice Gee Mix 'n' Match (1996) 3 exemplar
BWB texts : writers' lives (2014) 2 exemplar
BWB texts : set one (2014) 2 exemplar
Waterfront 1 exemplar
Le sel, tome 1 (2012) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
The Dick Francis Complete Treasury of Great Racing Stories (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The New Treasury of Great Racing Stories (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Auckland : The city in literature (2003) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
New Zealand Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar

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I found this hard reading - too poetic - too dozy, Meg the main character got on my nerves as she was too whimiscal, submissive, dreamy. However I can relate to Meg, as a child - young woman, when you live this life you create a fantasy world to take yourself out of it. What I did like about the book was the insight that it gave the reader into the diversity / dysfunction of family life that is portrayed to the public as the good all round Christian family,but in reality there is a lot of damage that is done (if you become a victim to it). I could relate to this upbringing (authoritarion - judgemental - subservient), however it was not all bad, as an adult I have been able to take the learning that I choose and grow from it.… (mer)
 
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Mihiterina | 1 annan recension | Dec 28, 2023 |
I had vague recollections of reading but not finishing this as a kid, and 30 years later a few certain details stuck with me, so I decided to finally finish it.

With adult eyes it was nice to recognise the New Zealand setting, and even when we moved to the fantasy world, there was such a focus on the details of landscape that I really felt a sense of recognition. Most of the time in fantasy, landscapes are described in a grand sweeping way, with a lack of attention to detail which leaves them quite abstract. Maurice Gee describes scree, gullies and pathways in such an intimate way that resonates with me as someone who has explored the New Zealand wilderness and experienced similar settings personally.

The bad guys are pretty one-dimensional edgy evil dudes, complete with black leather and everything, but that's presumably part of the point since the entire premise of the novel hinges on every human in the world having been split into either entirely good or entirely evil, which is what our heroes have to fix. This does raise a few philosophical questions that might not be obvious to a child - the evil humans almost entirely wiped out the good ones, because the good ones are incapable of violence. At one point the last remaining Good human has to siphon some "evil" power from Susan so that she can kill the pursuing bad guys. It makes the point that some evil is a requirement to any fully functional human, since killing or violence is always evil even if you are doing it in defence of yourself or others. Then there is the meat eating vs vegetarian theme - it's not super in-your-face but killing animals, even to survive, could be considered evil. It's part of Jimmy Jaspers dual - perhaps more-evil-than-good - character.

We also see a single child in the evil land - which raises the question - can a child really be evil?

Susan demonstrates a believable emotional response to her situation, one that is not often portrayed in fantasy fiction - the chosen hero feeling isolated and overwhelmed by the task given her. I did get a little pissy at her for abandoning her companions over the darklands - they could easily have died while she floated off.

The bird people and the underground people were one of the ideas I'd remembered all these years, and I enjoyed the bird people culture. Would have loved to experience more of the undergrounders, however the effect of the darkness stayed with me for thirty years so I can't fault the episode too much.

It was a bit weird at the end that they never bothered to turn off the pollution machine themselves - the device that threatened to destroy both our world and the world of O. Instead they trusted the surviving humans to choose their own way. I guess that's very noble of our heroes, but personally I wouldn't take the risk!!

Great read, and finishing it gave me some long-delayed satisfaction.
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weemanda | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 21, 2023 |
A very tense, interesting story. I had no expectations, just a note on NZ authors to read eventually. Quite pleased with this exploration of personalities.
 
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Kiramke | 5 andra recensioner | Nov 15, 2023 |
This book reminds me a bit of Ursula LeGuin's books, in that there is a distance between the reader and the characters. The story is captivating and the world is created so completely that I feel like I've been there. Most of the time, if characters seem too difficult to relate to or understand I think it's a bad thing; but with LeGuin's books and this one, the way the story is told makes it okay that the characters are a little remote. It's as though the world that they are in and it's problems and mysteries are much bigger than the characters themselves, and that is the real focus of the story.… (mer)
 
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kamlibrarian | 25 andra recensioner | Dec 23, 2022 |

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Verk
43
Även av
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Medlemmar
2,219
Popularitet
#11,552
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
94
ISBN
194
Språk
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Favoritmärkt
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