Davey darling
Material type: TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2006.Description: 255 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0143020773 (pbk.) :
- Boys -- New Zealand -- South Island -- Fiction
- New Zealand fiction -- 21st century
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Boys New Zealand South Island Fiction
- South Island (N.Z.) Social life and customs Fiction
- New Zealand fiction 21st century
- Teenage boys -- New Zealand -- Christchurch -- Fiction
- Working class -- New Zealand -- Christchurch -- Fiction
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- South Island (N.Z.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Christchurch (N.Z.) -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Fiction -- 21st century
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007 Finalist.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room | Stack Room | SHA | 1 | Available | T00442152 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This superb coming-of-age novel contains echoes of Ian Cross's The God Boy. Both novels look at the world and family relationships through the eyes of a young boy on the brink of adolescence. . Davey Ardsley is twelve years old, growing up in a working-class suburb of Christchurch in the early 1970s (Norman Kirk has just died) with a big, violent, hard-case father and a long-suffering mother. The fridge is always full of beer; his mother is always lighting another fag to have with her cup of tea. Davey is a bit of a hard-case himself, giving his father and Terry Appleby, the local thug, plenty of lip. . One day Davey witnesses something he shouldn't have and the repercussions that follow pitch the Ardsleys down a dark and tragic road. The outcome is that Davey has to choose between loyalty to his father or telling the truth.
Novel.
"A Penguin original"--back cover.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007 Finalist.
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