Blindsight

Blindsight
Maurice Gee
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 192pg
1 Jul 2009 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9780143202578
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Alice Ferry is a retired Wellington scientist, a mycologist (fungi is her thing). One day a young man knocks on her door. Adrian is a great-nephew she never knew she had, the grandson of her brother Gordon. As her story unfolds we learn of her childhood with Gordon in West Auckland and of the divergent paths their lives have taken. While Alice has gone on to have a successful career, Gordon has mentally deteriorated to the point where he is a silent derelict living on the streets of Wellington. Adrian wants to meet him. But Alice resists. As Adrian persists, Alice becomes more and more edgy. What is she hiding from her nephew? How has Gordon ended up in this state? And what does Alice have to do with it? Blindsight shows Gee the master playing with characters and complex story structures with immense skill. Moving back and forward in time and place, he never puts a foot wrong. The novel contains many Gee signature features - Loomis in West Auckland, the creek as a symbol, an older person struggling to understand their life, and dark family secrets. This is a magnificent novel by our finest writer.
Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers, for both adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the New Zealand Fiction Award. He has also won 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 children's novels, the most recent being Salt and Gool. Maurice lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.
Status: Print on Demand
ISBN-13: 9780143202578
Published: 1 Jul 2009
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Publisher: Penguin Group NZ
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 192
Dewey: 823.2

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