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A GOOD KEEN GIRL

A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL
A GOOD KEEN GIRL

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Title: A GOOD KEEN GIRL
Author(s): CRUMP, Barry
ISBN: 589004956
Category: New Zealand - Literature
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover
Published: 1970
Published By: AH & AW Reed
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 155
Size (mm): 140 w x 220 h x 20 d

Condition

No dust jacket - first three images for illustrative purposes only.

Excellent with light wear on covers, end papers/pages otherwise generally clean with a few marks. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

Another book by famous New Zealand author Barry Crump.

"A good keen girl, that's what you need," said Bert Shambles to Kersey Hooper, who was breaking in the desolate Blackrange Station without benefit of matrimonial helpmate.

Illustrated with monochrome drawings.

About the Author
Barry Crump MBE (1935-1996) was a New Zealand author and titan of New Zealand writing, who based his of semi-autobiographical comic novels on his image as a rugged outdoors man. Taken together his novels have sold more than a million copies domestically, equating to one book sold for every four New Zealanders. Born in Papatoetoe, Auckland, Crump worked for many years as a government deer-culler in areas of New Zealand native forest (termed bush). He collected his experiences in his first novel A Good Keen Man in 1960. This novel became one of the most popular in New Zealand history, and Crump's success continued with the more fictional Hang on a Minute Mate (1961), One of Us (1962), There and Back (1963), Gulf (1964), A Good Keen Girl (1970), Bastards I Have Met ( Graham Kirk ) (1971), and others, which capitalized on the appeal of his good-natured itinerant self-sufficient characters and idiomatic "blokey" writing style. Through the 1980s and early 1990s Crump's rugged outdoors man reputation carried through with him becoming the legendary front man for Toyota New Zeland and their popular series of TV adverts for Toyota Hilux utes. Crump travelled throughout Australia (where he hunted crocodiles), Europe, Turkey, and India, the result of which was his conversion to the Bah Faith by 1982. He married five times, including a one-year marriage to the poet Fleur Adcock and a longer marriage to Robin Lee-Robinson, and had nine sons and no daughters.

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Increasingly scarce in this condition
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