Creeks and Kitchens

A Childhood Memoir

Biography & Memoir, Literary
Cover of the book Creeks and Kitchens by Maurice Gee, Bridget Williams Books
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Author: Maurice Gee ISBN: 9781927131770
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books Publication: April 3, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Maurice Gee
ISBN: 9781927131770
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Publication: April 3, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a memoir in this BWB Text.

In this little known work, Gee describes in fascinating detail his boyhood and family life in West Auckland and offers illuminating insights into some of the creative forces which have driven some of his fiction: the creek with its dangers where, he writes, he glimpsed ‘sex and death’ the kitchen with his mother preparing dinner in the gathering dark, and his elderly uncle, later the model for the magnificent Plumb.

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Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a memoir in this BWB Text.

In this little known work, Gee describes in fascinating detail his boyhood and family life in West Auckland and offers illuminating insights into some of the creative forces which have driven some of his fiction: the creek with its dangers where, he writes, he glimpsed ‘sex and death’ the kitchen with his mother preparing dinner in the gathering dark, and his elderly uncle, later the model for the magnificent Plumb.

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