Pearly Gates
Author: Marshall, Owen
ISBN: 9780143773153
Publisher: RH NZ VINTAGE
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 232mm x 154mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Comeuppance comes from unexpected directions.
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?
ISBN: 9780143773153
Publisher: RH NZ VINTAGE
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 232mm x 154mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Comeuppance comes from unexpected directions.
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?
