Blindsight' more from Maurice of Geeland
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By Denis Welch
The new Maurice Gee novel is perhaps his best since the Plumb trilogy
Devotees of Graham Greene used to imagine a place called Greeneland, a composite city of shabby bedsits, shady deals and half-lived lives, where failure and disappointment drifted through the streets like fog - or would, if they had the energy to. All the familiar riffs of Greene's novels were there. A television series called Shades of Greene explored the same dreary territory. The general effect was grey, rather than green.
Maurice Gee's BlindsightCourtesy of NZ Listener
By Denis Welch
The new Maurice Gee novel is perhaps his best since the Plumb trilogy
Devotees of Graham Greene used to imagine a place called Greeneland, a composite city of shabby bedsits, shady deals and half-lived lives, where failure and disappointment drifted through the streets like fog - or would, if they had the energy to. All the familiar riffs of Greene's novels were there. A television series called Shades of Greene explored the same dreary territory. The general effect was grey, rather than green.