Everything in its right place
โ Scribed by Tobias McCorkell
- Publisher
- Transit Lounge Publishing
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Melbourne
- ISBN
- 1925760634
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Coburg, Melbourne. Ford McCullen is growing up with his mother Deidre and his Pop and Noonie in 'The Compound', a pair of units in the shadow of Pentridge prison. His father, Robert, has left them to live in the bush with his new male partner. Nobody is coping. When Ford's paternal grandmother Queenie's good fortune allows him to attend a prestigious Catholic private school on the other side of the river and to learn the violin, Ford finds himself balancing separate identities. At school he sees himself being moulded into an image that is not his own, something at odds with the rough and tumble of his beloved north.Crumbling under the weight of his family's expectations and realising that he just might be the only adult amongst them, Ford embarks on a quest for meaning while navigating the uncomfortable realities of his father's life, his mother's ongoing crisis, and the pillars of football and religion, delving ever deeper into a fraught search for the source of the 'McCullen...
โฆ Subjects
Electronic books
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