TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marshall,Owen
TI  - Pearly Gates: a novel 
SN  - 9780143773153 
U1  - NZ823.2 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Auckland
PB  - Penguin Random House New Zealand
KW  - Men
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Rugby Union football players
KW  - Real estate agents
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Otago (N.Z.)
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
N2  - This entertaining and insightful novel both skewers and celebrates small-town New Zealand.Pat ̀Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting injuries.  He runs a successful real-estate agency in a provincial South Island town, of which he is the second-term mayor. Popular, happily married, well established, he cuts an impressive figure, especially in his own eyes. But will his pride and complacency come before a fall?
ER  -