Award-winning fiction author Maurice Gee is, according to a contributor to The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, "one of New Zealand's most distinguished novelists." Though not all of his bo...
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Critical Essay by Susannah Clapp
Very little happens without deliberation in Maurice Gee's … [Games of Choice]: it comes as no surprise to discover that the "games" of its...
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Critical Essay by Michael Leapman
The equipment required for proper appreciation of "Sole Survivor" includes a familiarity with New Zealand politics since 1950 and a taste for the sordi...
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Critical Essay by John Mellors
Mr Gee is a solemnly earnest writer, but Plumb carries conviction as an honest chronicle of the life and times of a New Maurice (Gough) Gee 1931– Courtesy of Mau...
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Critical Essay by James Burns
[Plumb] is narrated in the first person and tells the story of George Plumb, lawyer, parson and ex-parson who places conscience before career and suffers an unhappy life...
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Critical Essay by Angela Huth
Meg, Part Two in the stifling saga of a family called Plumb, is the everyday tale of profoundly dull New Zealand folk….
It isn't Mr Gee's fault t...
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Critical Essay by Fleur Adcock
Maurice Gee's last novel, Plumb, was the story of a New Zealand Presbyterian minister who preached pacifism and socialism, left the church, and was sent to priso...
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Critical Essay by Digby Durrant
Maurice Gee's skill is confirmed in Meg, whose story of a family with more than its fair share of misfits, lechers and drunks would be the stuff of soap operas ...
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Critical Essay by Carol Rumens
Sole Survivor is the third volume in Maurice Gee's New Zealand saga of the Plumb family. The rise and fall of Duggie Plumb, an ambitious politician, is charted i...
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Critical Essay by Grace Ingoldby
Outstanding on its own, this story [Sole Survivor] is considerably enriched by the past explored in previous Plumb books. Characters with this much history and develo...
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Critical Essay by Fleur Adcock
[Sole Survivor] is the final novel in a New Zealand trilogy which began with Plumb, the story of a fierce and egotistical nonconformist minister turned heretic, sociali...
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Maurice Gee
Critical Essay by Susannah Clapp
