The Limping Man
Young Adult Fiction Finalist
The Limping Man
Maurice Gee
Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 978-0-14330-516-3 pb RRP $21.00
Target age 10+
What is the source of the Limping Man's monstrous power? Nobody can withstand it, a soft crawling that seeps into your skin and wriggles into your mind, making you powerless with love for him even as his cruelties multiply. The third book in Maurice Gee’s stunning Salt trilogy.
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s best-known writers for adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award, the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award and the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee’s acclaimed children’s novels include the Salt trilogy, The Fat Man, The Fire-Raiser, Under the Mountain and the O trilogy. Maurice lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son. |
