Pearly Gates (NZ Author/Topic)
By (Author) Owen Marshall
Read How You Want
Read How You Want
21st February 2019
Large Print Edition
Australia
General
Fiction
Paperback
428
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This entertaining and insightful 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