Crime Story
by Maurice Gee
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A novel by an award-winning New Zealand author which spans politics and high finance, and asks questions about the perpetrators and victims of crime, and about the price of greed and personal isolation. It features a confrontation between a petty thief and the wife of a wealthy property-owner.Tags
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Supposedly a New Zealand classic but more of that cinema of unease stuff that I cannot bear, no offence Mr Gee but not for me. It requires an emotional investment for nil return.
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Maurice Gee of New Zealand is a novelist and author of children's books. Gee's first book, The Big Season, was published in 1962. He has since produced nearly two dozens novels and collections of short stories and his work has appeared in such publications as Arena, Mate, Landfall, Islands, and Listener. Gee received the New Zealand Book Award in show more fiction in 1979 for Plumb, in 1982 for Meg, and in 1991 for The Burning Boy. Going West won the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1993. In 1995 The Fat Man won the AIM Children's Book Award for Junior Fiction, as well as The Esther Glen Award, given for the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand literature for children and young adults. He had previously received The Esther Glen Award in 1983 for Motherstone. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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