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Author Mayne, William, 1928-2010, author

Title A game of dark / William Mayne
Published London : Hamish Hamilton, 1971
London : Hamilton, 1971
©1971

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB CRC  82J MAY-G  AVAILABLE
 MELB SPCBC  819 Mayne Wil/God  LIB USE ONLY
Description 143 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "This is William Mayne's most powerfully emotional and disturbing novel to date, a book as much for adults as for young readers, in that its central conflict - a boy's relationship to his father - is a theme of universal interest. Donald's father is a cripple, emotionally and physically injured in a railway accident. His mother tries to maintain some semblance of balance in the household, but there is increasing tension between Donald and his father, a tension which brings in its wake guilt and confusion for Donald. His only recourse is a retreat into a fantasy world of high adventure, where the drama of his everyday life is played out with other elements and leads eventually to acceptance and understanding." -- Dust jacket
SUMMARY: A twentieth-century teenager finds himself existing as squire to the lord of a medieval village threatened by a giant predator-worm
Analysis Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
Notes For adolescents
Audience For adolescents
Subject Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.
Space and time -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 72176540
ISBN 0241020506