As If! - Couverture souple

Levy, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1876819804 ISBN 13 : 9781876819804

Editeur : Interactive Publications, 2008

Synopsis

Pumping life, the teenagers in this novel jump off the page. From the intelligent but physically abused Gray Morrow, to his heroic but temperamental older brother, Gordon, and his tragic relationship with the city-wise but sexually abused Dusty Jones, this is a world many of us fail to recognise as very much our own.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

We seek them out, our homies, our bros, under the bridge, by the river in the Ipswich dark, and then as if of one large mind, like a single huge brain cell, hungry and in search of things to do we go seeking through the suburbs looking to fill our bellies and have some good, honest to God fun. Scouring the neighbor hood for targets. Pumping life, the teenagers in this novel jump off the page. From the intelligent but physically abused Gray Morrow, to his heroic but temperamental older brother, Gordon, and his tragic relationship with the city-wise but sexually abused Dusty Jones, this is a world many of us fail to recognise as very much our own. Often dark and sometimes cold, bloody and brutal, it is also filled with pathos, love and humanity. Moving between the fringe town of Ipswich and affuent Brisbane, we also find people of the normal world: Ruth Hannah, the shelter supervisor who offers comfort and support to the kids, but who has her own past to contend with, and the Juvenile Aid Bureaus Senior Detective Constable Watno Thornes who tries to befriend the kids but lives with a dark agenda in the back of his head...Levys novel immerses us in this world. Once in, we see that the way out is no simple journey. This book is a good read for those sensible enough to buy it. It is racy, with a pace reminiscent of an early Henry Miller, getting you involved in its poetically drawn world, and then lulling you into a sense of complacency, when WHAM, it hits you that this is no ordinary novel, something to be evidenced in both the content and style of writing as much as the universal themes of love, loss and need that are so brilliantly portrayed through the energetically alive, complex and richly drawn characters. ---Dr Robert Schweitzer, Associate Professor in Psychology, Queensland University of Technology.

Biographie de l'auteur

Barry Levy is a former South African journalist who moved with his Australian wife and two children to Australia in 1984 because of their abhorrence of apartheid. In 2004 Levy had his first fiction novel published Burning Bright , a story of young love, hate and child abuse, which was translated into Italian. Levy's most recent book, As If! (Interactive Press, 2004), is a harsh, realistic and compassionate depiction of life on the streets for Australian kids. Other publications include The Glazer Kidnapping , the true story of one of the kidnappers involved in the world's biggest kidnap of its time, which took place in South Africa in the mid sixties; a short story, ''The Promised Land'', published in At the Rendezvous of Victory , a compilation under the title of principal author and Nobel Literature Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer; and ''The Souls from Nowhereland'', a chapter in the recent compilation Should I Stay or Should I Go , which highlights the ongoing dilemma and argument around emigration for South Africans. Levy has been a winner of the Australian Human Rights Award for Journalism - for a multiple series of stories on child sex abuse, domestic violence and homelessness; a winner of the Anning Barton Memorial Award for Outstanding Journalism (Central Queensland) for a series of stories on child sex abuse (incest-rape), and a Walkley Awards Queensland State finalist for his series on homelessness.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Interactive Publications
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1876819804
• ISBN 13: 9781876819804
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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