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The
2004 Award
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Of
a Boy (also
published as What
the Birds See)
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Nominated by:
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| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Metfords have not been lost or abandoned - they have been made to disappear.
They have not run away - they have been lifted up and carried. They've been
taken somewhere as distant as Jupiter. Adrian has never thought that an
ordinary child, a kid like himself or Clinton or that freckle-nosed girl,
might be of interest to anyone excepting family and friends, that an ordinary
child could be worth taking or wanting, a desirable thing. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his grandmother and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home. . . Sonya Hartnett captures perfectly the tenderness and skewed perceptions of childhood. Of a Boy is a heartbreaking work of exceptional storytelling. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Sonya Hartnett was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1968. She is highly acclaimed author of thirteen novels, including Sleeping Dogs, Thursday's Child and Forest. |
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