One of my favourite authors, a great New Zealand author but he gets zero recognition.
From a previous entry:
This is the world of 14 year old Neddy Poindexter and and his mate Les in small town New Zealand in the mid 20th century.
This small town is visited by rape and murder and along the way we glimpse the idiosyncrasies of the people living in this town.
Very very dark, very very wonderful. Small town NZ exposed. The myth of the simple clean new Zealand way of life is exposed here as simply that, a myth. Here we have endemic drunkenness, boredom and frustration.
A great read. Morrieson should be compulsory in schools.
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