Going west / Maurice Gee.

By:

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

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. Viking 1992Description: 279 p. 22 cmISBN:

0670849979 (hbk.)

Genre/Form:

New Zealand fiction -- 20th century.

DDC classification:

Fiction

Summary: For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley, eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike-rider, takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the gulf? Jack has to find out, and so is drawn to examine their lives in Auckland and Wellington over sixty years.

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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		A00043526

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Limited. First published in New Zealand by Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd"--T.p. verso

For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley, eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike-rider, takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the gulf? Jack has to find out, and so is drawn to examine their lives in Auckland and Wellington over sixty years.

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