The plumb trilogy / Maurice Gee.

By:

Gee, Maurice. (Maurice Gough Gee), 1931- [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: North Shore, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2007.Description: 255, 243, 225 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780143007562 (pbk.) :

Uniform titles:

Novels. Selections

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Genre/Form:

New Zealand fiction -- 20th century.

DDC classification:

NZ823.2 22

Contents:

Plumb -- Meg -- Sole survivor.

Summary: Plumb is one of Maurice's most admired and loved novels. The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fiction Award and the Wattie Book of the Year Award. Meg continues the family story with George Plumb's daughter, articulating her personal battles against a backdrop of family traumas and world wars. Sole Survivor focuses on the career of Duggie Plum, Plumb's grandson, as seen through the eyes of his cousin Raymond Sole, who sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage against that of his relationship to Duggie.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction - New Zealand	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Fiction	GEE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Long Term Storage		A0048049X

New ed.

"The Plumb trilogy first published by Penguin Group (N.Z.), 1995" --t.p. verso.

Plumb. originally published, London : Faber, 1978. Meg. originally published Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin and London : Faber 1981. Sole survivor. originally published London : Faber ; Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 1983.

Plumb -- Meg -- Sole survivor.

Plumb is one of Maurice's most admired and loved novels. The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fiction Award and the Wattie Book of the Year Award. Meg continues the family story with George Plumb's daughter, articulating her personal battles against a backdrop of family traumas and world wars. Sole Survivor focuses on the career of Duggie Plum, Plumb's grandson, as seen through the eyes of his cousin Raymond Sole, who sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage against that of his relationship to Duggie.

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