TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marshall,Owen
TI  - Peraly Gates
SN  - 9780143773153 (pbk.)
AV  - PR9639.3.M275 L37 2011
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - Vintage
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
N2  - "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
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