Maurice Gee

The Severed Land (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a welcome return to writing fiction intended primarily for younger readers, Maurice Gee has definitely pulled it off. This is an excellent book. . . . what an adventure: power, thievery, slavery, acts of immense courage and bravado, and a definite nod to an underworld of violence and cruelty. It's all managed brilliantly. . . . Fliss is a remarkably-drawn character. She is gutsy, determined, brave, and sure of herself. . . . It goes without saying really that this is well-written - I honestly don't think Maurice Gee could write a bad sentence if he tried - and the characters spring from the pages. It also goes without saying that it may have been aimed at younger readers, but that like any really good book, its audience is in fact anyone who loves a great story. Of course it's not as complex as it might have been were it written with an adult readership in mind, but sometimes less is more! And while the story is complete, it's possible there could be more - I guess we'll just have to hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143770251
• Artikelnr.: 47394614

Autorenporträt

Maurice Gee has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults and young adults 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. In 2003 he received an inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 he received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee's novels include The Plumb Trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies and The Scornful Moon. He has also written a number of much-loved children's novels, including Under the Mountain, The O Trilogy and The Salt Trilogy. Maurice lives in Nelson, in New Zealand's South Island, with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.