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Gee, Maurice. 1931-

Memory pieces / Maurice Gee. - Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2018. - 366 pages ; 24 cm

Double unit -- Blind road -- Running on the stairs.

Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Road' is Gee's story up to the age of eighteen, when his apprenticeship as a writer began. `Running on the Stairs' tells the story of Margaretha Garden, beginning in 1940, the year of her birth, when she travelled with her mother Greta from Nazi-sympathising Sweden to New Zealand, through to her meeting Maurice Gee when they were working together in the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1967. Design by Keely O'Shannessey - Publisher

ISBN: 9781776562077 1776562070

Subjects--Personal Names:
Gee, Maurice--Childhood and youth.
Gee, Maurice--Family.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Novelists, New Zealand--20th century--Biography.
Novelists, New Zealand--21st century--Biography.

LC Class. No.: PR9699 / .G297 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 823.2 B