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  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781742287942
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook

Going West





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 is drawn to examine their lives. Going West has long been regarded as one of the most autobiographical of Maurice Gee's novels.

  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781742287942
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook

About the author

Maurice Gee

Maurice Gee (1931-2025) has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults, young adults and children, and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. Maurice is survived by his wife Margareta, two daughters and a son.

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