BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography

BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography
BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography
BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography
BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography
BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography

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Title: BARRY CRUMP: The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography
Author(s): CRUMP, Barry
ISBN: 1869583973
Category: New Zealand - Biographies
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Softcover
Published: 1992
Published By: Hodder Moa Beckett
Edition: 2nd reprinted 1996
Pages: 192

Condition

Immaculate for age with light wear on covers, otherwise clean. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

An Autobiography of New Zealand's greatest storytellers.

Illustrated with monochrome images.

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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