The Fat Man
  • Published: 24 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143304074
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99

The Fat Man

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24 Nov 2008
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When people like Herbert Muskie take up residence in your mind, there's nothing you can do to get them out.
Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive man and the fearful child.
But who is the fat man and why does he hate the people of Loomis? What guilty secrets are hidden in the past and why are Colin's parents such special targets?
A taut thriller from the award-winning author of The Fire-Raiser, Salt and Gool.
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  • Published: 24 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143304074
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99
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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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Also by Maurice Gee

The Severed Land
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics)
Plumb Trilogy
Prowlers
Under the Mountain
Access Road
The Fire-Raiser
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Praise for The Fat Man

Gee brilliantly allows readers to see the child within each adult, and to recognize the complexity of the consequences one's actions can yield.

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