The Scornful Moon

The Scornful Moon
Maurice Gee
Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 224pg
4 Apr 2005 NZ
9780143019909
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Sam, the narrator, is a retired journalist and friend of James Tinley. James is a former right-wing Cabinet Minister, reserved, patrician, unforgiving. Owen Moody is young and brilliant and soon to be dead. It is Wellington, 1935. The Great Depression is almost over and Labour is set to seize victory in the coming election. James decides to run for office again and is assured of the National candidacy when his opponent shoots Moody. The trial causes a political sensation and exposes the cracks in the carefully guarded facade of this political circle. For James the approaching elections also bring him closer to the slow and dramatic collapse of his world. On the night, James inevitably loses his seat to Labour and the terrible dark secret in his life surfaces. He's been caught, compromised and blackmailed. Only at the brink is it revealed what an appalling price he has paid for the great lie in his life. Maurice Gee's wonderful new novel is as good as anything he has ever done. Multi-layered, beautifully constructed, constantly surprising the reader, it combines good old-fashioned drama with a master writer's exquisite story-telling.
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780143019909
Published: 4 Apr 2005
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Publisher: Penguin Group NZ
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 224

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