| Description |
373 pages ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Arriving in the city with little money, no job, an indifferent mother and brother, and nowhere to stay, a shy, awkward 14-year-old boy drifts from the city to the bush and back again, doing what work he can, slowly becoming more alienated and distrustful ... With gathering momentum, the narrative takes successively dangerous turns, propelling the reader toward its tragic conclusion. Fresh Fields can be read as the prequel to Peter Kocan's groundbreaking novellas The Treatment and The Cure. Its insights into parental neglect, homelessness, mental illness and the trials of adolescence are all too real, but there is also genuine humanity, compassion, sensitivity and humour in the face of adversity, and these qualities leaven the harsh realities and make for an unforgettable literary experience |
| Notes |
Winner of the 2005 Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards, The FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize |
| Subject |
Australian fiction.
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Teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Homeless teenagers -- Mental health -- Fiction.
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Adolescence -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| ISBN |
0732279852 : |
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