Peraly Gates
Marshall, Owen, 1941-
Peraly Gates Owen Marshall. - Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 2019 - 281 pages 24 cm.
"This ... novel both skewers and celebrates small-town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting injuries. He runs a successful real-estate agency in a provincial South Island town, of which he is the second-term mayor. Popular, happily married, well established, he cuts an impressive figure, especially in his own eyes. But will his pride and complacency come before a fall?"--Publisher information
9780143773153 (pbk.)
2019431127
New Zealand fiction--21st century.
PR9639.3.M275 / L37 2011
Peraly Gates Owen Marshall. - Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 2019 - 281 pages 24 cm.
"This ... novel both skewers and celebrates small-town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting injuries. He runs a successful real-estate agency in a provincial South Island town, of which he is the second-term mayor. Popular, happily married, well established, he cuts an impressive figure, especially in his own eyes. But will his pride and complacency come before a fall?"--Publisher information
9780143773153 (pbk.)
2019431127
New Zealand fiction--21st century.
PR9639.3.M275 / L37 2011