Maurice Shadbolt (1932–2004)
Autor de Season of the Jew
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Maurice Shadbolt
The People Before 2 copias
Obras relacionadas
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Shadbolt, Maurice
- Nombre legal
- Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1932-06-04
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2004-10-10
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- New Zealand
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Taumarunui, New Zealand
- Lugares de residencia
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Educación
- Te Kuiti High School
Avondale College
Auckland University College - Ocupaciones
- journalist
scriptwriter
documentary film director
novelist
short-story writer - Relaciones
- Sandys, Elspeth (former partner)
Shadbolt, Brigid (daughter) - Organizaciones
- Waikato University (writer-in-residence, 1992)
- Premios y honores
- Order of the British Empire ( [1989])
Honorary Doctorate (Literature, 1997)
Montana NZ Book Awards ( [2002])
Robert Burns Fellowship (1963)
Miembros
Debates
ANZAC Author Reading Challenge- February 2015- Cate Kennedy & Maurice Shadbolt en 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (marzo 2015)
Reseñas
Listas
THE WAR ROOM (2)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 29
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 547
- Popularidad
- #45,593
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 76
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 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.… (más)