The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man

The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man

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Title: The Life and Times of A Good Keen Man
Author(s): CRUMP, Barry
ISBN: 0959788974
Category: New Zealand - Literature
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1992
Published By: Barry Crump Associates
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 237
Size (mm): 155 w x 240 h x 20 d

Condition

Immaculate original condition, light handling wear on dust jacket, front inscription, otherwise as brand new. Images depict all need to know details.

About

Barry Crump wrote his first book A GOOD KEEN MAN in 1960. It became a bestseller, as did his numerous other books which followed. His most famous and best-loved New Zealand character is Sam Cash, who features in Hang on a Minute Mate, Crump's second book. Between them, these two books have sold over 400,000 copies and continue to sell at an amazing rate, some 30 years later.

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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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