"The [...] authors are listed alphabetically and not in the order they appear. We leave it to the reader to decide who wrote which chapter." -- page [5]. Chapters of this cooperatively written novel are by Barbara Anderson, Catherine Chidgey, Tessa Duder, Maurice Gee, Kevin Ireland, Stephanie Johnson, Graeme Lay, Sue McCauley, Gordon McLauchlan, Owen Marshall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Sarah Quigley and Elizabeth Smither. "Published in association with The New Zealand Society of Authors"--Cover.
Contents:
Contents as they appear on page [9]: Friday March 26, 1999. On Teevee ; Dawson Falls ; The killing fields ; Heartbreak Hotel ; A bad business ; Little things -- Saturday March 27, 1999. Family unit ; Spring with the Sumerbottoms ; The best man ; Spineless -- Sunday March 28, 1999. Tact ; Home town ; How to bring down a government.
Summary:
Clarry and Lucy Claridge own a motel in a small town in Taranaki. Nothing much ever happens in town but on the weekend of 26-29 March 1999, their motel is fully booked. Twelve writers combine to write a chapter each of the story of what happened at Morrieson's Motel on this eventful weekend. "Twelve of New Zealand's best-known fiction writers combine to tell the story of what happened on an eventful weekend in March 1999 when Morrieson's Motel, a humble twelve-unit establishment in a small South Taranaki town, is fully occupied. The wild assemblage of guests create three days of drama, romance, sex and mystery."--Back cover.
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