Product Description

For all the promise of his name Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend, Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorcycle maniac - takes that prize. But is he also a murderer? Maurice Gee is the author of "The Burning Boy".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289598 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

The best in New Zealand fiction
Witi Ihimaera (Whale Rider) may have garnered the international acclaim, but Maurice Gee is easily New Zealand's greatest living writer: prolific, diverse and never less than excellent. Going West is his 'other' masterpiece (aside from Plumb). Big themes are developed through small-time, domestic tragedies. It's literary, intelligent and utterly accessible. Un-put-downable, and not in a Dan Brown sense, either. For anyone who likes Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Kazuo Ishiguro, etc... fiction for grown-ups.