Title Boy swallows universe / Trent Dalton

Published Sydney, NSW, Australia ; New York, NY, USA : Fourth Estate, 2019 ©2018

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	827.04 D1521 A6/B		DUE 16-05-24

Description 500 pages ; 20 cm Summary "A wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe." Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But if Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum. A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships Notes "First published in Australia in 2018"--Title page verso Subject Friendship -- Fiction. Teenage boys -- Australia -- Fiction. Working class -- Australia -- Queensland -- Fiction. Nineteen eighties -- Fiction. Criminals -- Fiction. Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Coming of age -- Fiction. SUBJECT Brisbane (Qld.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115478 -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Australian fiction Australian fiction Bildungsromans. Fiction. ISBN 9781460753897 9781460757765 1460753895 1460757769

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