To Become a Whale
β Scribed by Hobson, Ben
- Book ID
- 109982591
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 319 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781760294397
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Hobson takes us to the depths of cruelty to show us life. A boy tries to be a man, a man tries to be a father, and both struggle to navigate what it means to be men. A great study in masculinity.'
WILLY VLAUTIN, author of Lean on Pete and The Free
'A powerful tale of fathers and sons and all that can't be spoken between them. The writing is honest, rich and clean, and it made me feel so much. Too many writers fuss things up, but Ben tells it simply, which is so affecting.'
SOFIE LAGUNA, author of Miles Franklin-winning The Eye of the Sheep
To Become a Whale tells the story of 13-year-old Sam Keogh, whose mother has died. Sam has to learn how to live with his silent, hitherto absent father, who decides to make a man out of his son by taking him to work at Tangalooma, then the largest whaling station in the southern hemisphere. What follows is the devastatingly beautiful story of a gentle boy trying to make sense of the terrible reality of whaling and...
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