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Title: Loving Ways
Author: Maurice Gee
Narrator: Lyndal Howley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-12-14
Publisher: Penguin Books NZ
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
May, David, and Alan Macpherson have the same father but different mothers, and their paths in life have been enormously different. The three have come together after 35 years at the Nelson orchard of their dying father, Robert Macpherson. The old tugmaster, domineering and earthy still, is being nursed by May's daughter, Heather, who also runs the orchard. A strange love exists between her and the old man.
As summer runs into autumn and the apples are harvested, the desires and beliefs of the ill-matched siblings - each, in some way, loving or loved - are frustrated, satisfied, put to the test until, at last, a shocking act of violence brings their unlikely reunion to an end.
In Loving Ways the award-winning Maurice Gee returns to the familiar territory of Nelson. Not even the main characters themselves are fully aware of the strange undercurrents which stir this superb contemporary novel. This is Gee at his finest.
Members Reviews:
Mr Gee polishes a tale of intensity and class one dysfunction
Claustrophobic. What is it in the New Zealand psyche that produces books that are shriven of excess tat such as warmth and humour. Think Janet Frame. This is Maurice Gee in the Frame territory where what is unsaid is as important as the dialogue and the requirement of the reader to think and not spoon fed narrative. Once into the story (about fifty pages) it works for me. Mr Gee is a literary giant and whereas I do not rate "Loving Ways" as highly as say the "Plumb" trilogy, it is no slouch. Many of Mr Gee's novels do contain warmth and humour but this crackles with damaged people in various stages of wreckage and seeking conciliation in their ageing adult lives. The patriarch at the centre is a poisonous well of old style testosterone wrecking ball or balls. It is a highly charged novel with an outcome that scours. At the end, I felt Mr Gee had told the story of a complex, dysfunctional family. His ability to engage with the psychology of his protagonists and describe interactions, barely suppressed violence and emotional sparseness is unsettling but makes for a rewarding read. The setting, semi rural coastal New Zealand, frames the narrative well and provides a good supporting cast of artisans and alternative "escapees".
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Title: Loving Ways
Author: Maurice Gee
Narrator: Lyndal Howley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-12-14
Publisher: Penguin Books NZ
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
May, David, and Alan Macpherson have the same father but different mothers, and their paths in life have been enormously different. The three have come together after 35 years at the Nelson orchard of their dying father, Robert Macpherson. The old tugmaster, domineering and earthy still, is being nursed by May's daughter, Heather, who also runs the orchard. A strange love exists between her and the old man.
As summer runs into autumn and the apples are harvested, the desires and beliefs of the ill-matched siblings - each, in some way, loving or loved - are frustrated, satisfied, put to the test until, at last, a shocking act of violence brings their unlikely reunion to an end.
In Loving Ways the award-winning Maurice Gee returns to the familiar territory of Nelson. Not even the main characters themselves are fully aware of the strange undercurrents which stir this superb contemporary novel. This is Gee at his finest.
Members Reviews:
Mr Gee polishes a tale of intensity and class one dysfunction
Claustrophobic. What is it in the New Zealand psyche that produces books that are shriven of excess tat such as warmth and humour. Think Janet Frame. This is Maurice Gee in the Frame territory where what is unsaid is as important as the dialogue and the requirement of the reader to think and not spoon fed narrative. Once into the story (about fifty pages) it works for me. Mr Gee is a literary giant and whereas I do not rate "Loving Ways" as highly as say the "Plumb" trilogy, it is no slouch. Many of Mr Gee's novels do contain warmth and humour but this crackles with damaged people in various stages of wreckage and seeking conciliation in their ageing adult lives. The patriarch at the centre is a poisonous well of old style testosterone wrecking ball or balls. It is a highly charged novel with an outcome that scours. At the end, I felt Mr Gee had told the story of a complex, dysfunctional family. His ability to engage with the psychology of his protagonists and describe interactions, barely suppressed violence and emotional sparseness is unsettling but makes for a rewarding read. The setting, semi rural coastal New Zealand, frames the narrative well and provides a good supporting cast of artisans and alternative "escapees".