Maurice Shadbolt (1932–2004)
Autore di Season of the Jew
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Maurice Shadbolt
The People Before 2 copie
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Shadbolt, Maurice
- Nome legale
- Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard
- Data di nascita
- 1932-06-04
- Data di morte
- 2004-10-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Luogo di morte
- Taumarunui, New Zealand
- Luogo di residenza
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Istruzione
- Te Kuiti High School
Avondale College
Auckland University College - Attività lavorative
- journalist
scriptwriter
documentary film director
novelist
short-story writer - Relazioni
- Sandys, Elspeth (former partner)
Shadbolt, Brigid (daughter) - Organizzazioni
- Waikato University (writer-in-residence, 1992)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire ( [1989])
Honorary Doctorate (Literature, 1997)
Montana NZ Book Awards ( [2002])
Robert Burns Fellowship (1963)
Utenti
Discussioni
ANZAC Author Reading Challenge- February 2015- Cate Kennedy & Maurice Shadbolt in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Marzo 2015)
Recensioni
Liste
THE WAR ROOM (2)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 547
- Popolarità
- #45,593
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 76
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
Although not a reputed connoisseur of New Zealand fiction, I was nonetheless enthralled by Shadbolt's amalgamation of the factual and fictional to present a vivid portrayal of two divided peoples at war with each other and among themselves set against the backdrop of the island-nation's early sanguine history.
Who can forget the innocent but bumbling Hamiora befriended by the cynical yet honest erstwhile military officer George Fairweather who fights to prevent him from becoming a victim of miscarried justice?
Or, the American expatriate soldier turned rebel Kimbell Bent attempting to broach both the worlds of the pristine Maori and the avaricious British?
And how can we forego Ferdinand Wildblood with his literary doppelganger of Henry Youngman fleeing accusations of plagiarism in England but only to end up in a war for souls in bloody New Zealand?
Shadbolt's acumen is on full display in this trilogy. A marvelous work of infinite magnitude.… (altro)