FRED

FRED
FRED
FRED
FRED
FRED
FRED
FRED
FRED
FRED

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Title: FRED
Author(s): CRUMP, Barry
Illustrated By: BAKER, Howard
Category: New Zealand - Literature
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Softcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1972
Published By: Crump Productions
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 109
Size (mm): 140 w x 215 h x 15 d

Condition

Excellent with wear on dust jacket, pages otherwise clean and unmarked, binding tight, no stamps or inscriptions. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

We follow Fred's adventures from an advertising agency in Auckland to a remote village in Westland and the characters he encounters on the way have to be read about to be believed and only Crump could have made such a preposterous collection of odd bods and sods not only believable, but laughing-out loud funny.

Characters such as Scratcher Farrell and Joe Bimler are going to be remembered and laughed about as long as us kiwis have a laugh left in us.

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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