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Title: Access Road
Author: Maurice Gee
Narrator: Heather Bolton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-23-12
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive. Clyde Buckley - violent as a boy; enigmatic, subterranean as an old man - returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? What crimes does he hide? And how is Lionel involved? Rowan must abandon safety if she is to find out Maurice Gee is a master storyteller. Access Road is at once a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; both a beautifully crafted work of literature and an effortlessly seductive family story.
Critic Reviews:
"Access Road is a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; a beautifully crafted work of literature and a seductive family story." (New Zealand Book Council)
"Gee is our greatest writer." (Paula Morris, NZ Listener)
"Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career." (WildTomato)
Members Reviews:
An excellent, brooding tale of family relationships and dark secrets
Widely considered `New Zealand's greatest living author', Nelson-based Maurice Gee has penned dozens of beloved tales, ranging from children's to adult, fantasy to realism. The near-octogenarian's latest (and reportedly, perhaps last) adult novel, Access Road, may be slim in size (200 pages), but it's still a very good read, packed with trademark Gee themes, style, and moments.
Elderly Rowan Pinker narrates a brooding tale of family relationships and dark secrets, shifting back and forth in time as she searches her memory for reasons behind her bedridden brother Lionel's silence. Rowan lives a somewhat-contented life with her "silly old git" of a husband Dickie, a cheerful drunk, in "upper crusty" Takapuna - but regularly visits her siblings Roly and Lionel, who've moved back to the old family home in Access Road, Loomis (a fictionalised West Auckland). Visits that spark a flood of memories, not all of them pleasant; particularly those involving sinister childhood friend Clyde Buckley. Is he the key to Lionel's troubles?
Gee writes with spare elegance, ably evoking the landscape (natural and human) of small-town Loomis. He is a maestro at creating layered characters full of ambiguity, depth and conflict; shades of grey rather than black and white. Rowan is a geriatric everywoman, but has she compromised her morality in the past, allowing darkness to flourish? Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career.
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Title: Access Road
Author: Maurice Gee
Narrator: Heather Bolton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-23-12
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive. Clyde Buckley - violent as a boy; enigmatic, subterranean as an old man - returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? What crimes does he hide? And how is Lionel involved? Rowan must abandon safety if she is to find out Maurice Gee is a master storyteller. Access Road is at once a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; both a beautifully crafted work of literature and an effortlessly seductive family story.
Critic Reviews:
"Access Road is a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; a beautifully crafted work of literature and a seductive family story." (New Zealand Book Council)
"Gee is our greatest writer." (Paula Morris, NZ Listener)
"Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career." (WildTomato)
Members Reviews:
An excellent, brooding tale of family relationships and dark secrets
Widely considered `New Zealand's greatest living author', Nelson-based Maurice Gee has penned dozens of beloved tales, ranging from children's to adult, fantasy to realism. The near-octogenarian's latest (and reportedly, perhaps last) adult novel, Access Road, may be slim in size (200 pages), but it's still a very good read, packed with trademark Gee themes, style, and moments.
Elderly Rowan Pinker narrates a brooding tale of family relationships and dark secrets, shifting back and forth in time as she searches her memory for reasons behind her bedridden brother Lionel's silence. Rowan lives a somewhat-contented life with her "silly old git" of a husband Dickie, a cheerful drunk, in "upper crusty" Takapuna - but regularly visits her siblings Roly and Lionel, who've moved back to the old family home in Access Road, Loomis (a fictionalised West Auckland). Visits that spark a flood of memories, not all of them pleasant; particularly those involving sinister childhood friend Clyde Buckley. Is he the key to Lionel's troubles?
Gee writes with spare elegance, ably evoking the landscape (natural and human) of small-town Loomis. He is a maestro at creating layered characters full of ambiguity, depth and conflict; shades of grey rather than black and white. Rowan is a geriatric everywoman, but has she compromised her morality in the past, allowing darkness to flourish? Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career.