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Meg / Maurice Gee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sequel to Plumb ; | Plumb trilogy ; 2.Publication details: London : Faber ; Auckland : Penguin, 1981.Description: 251 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0140061002
  • 9780140061000
  • 057111783X
  • 9780571117833
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Meg.DDC classification:
  • 823.2 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9639.3.G4 M4 1981x
Other classification:
  • HN 9990
Awards:
  • New Zealand Book Awards, 1982: Fiction.
Summary: "Meg, youngest daughter of George Plumb ... struggles from his shadow to lead her own. Round her a younger generation grows up - Esther, married to a millionaire tycoon; Alfred, banished homosexual, into whose world Meg makes nervous forays; and the youngest, Robert, a recluse whose goodness Meg recognizes but cannot understand. For over fifty years, through two wars, the Depression and the post-war boom, she fights for self-knowledge against a backdrop of a detention camp, courtrooms, parties and family gatherings, a war-surplus scandal, a financial collapse, fringe religion, love in marriage and out of it, and death bost peaceful and violent. And, always, dominant in the shadows, is the figure of George Plumb."--Jacket.
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Fiction Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Fiction GEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00054352

Novel set in New Zealand.

"Meg, youngest daughter of George Plumb ... struggles from his shadow to lead her own. Round her a younger generation grows up - Esther, married to a millionaire tycoon; Alfred, banished homosexual, into whose world Meg makes nervous forays; and the youngest, Robert, a recluse whose goodness Meg recognizes but cannot understand. For over fifty years, through two wars, the Depression and the post-war boom, she fights for self-knowledge against a backdrop of a detention camp, courtrooms, parties and family gatherings, a war-surplus scandal, a financial collapse, fringe religion, love in marriage and out of it, and death bost peaceful and violent. And, always, dominant in the shadows, is the figure of George Plumb."--Jacket.

New Zealand Book Awards, 1982: Fiction.

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