Memory Pieces
GEE Maurice
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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 Tu ...
Publication date: 2018-10-01
Number of pages: 366
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Subjects:
Fiction, Contemporary, NZ Fiction, Published in New Zealand