num_pages: 279
description: For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley – eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider – takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and is drawn to examine their lives. Going West has long been regarded as one of the most autobiographical of Maurice Gee's novels.
language: English
title: Going West
titlecomplete: Going West
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 141
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: 1st (Goodman Fielder Wattie)
publisher: Viking