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Bonesland

ebook

Shortlisted for the 2017 Text Prize

As soon as I finish school I'll have the car packed. I'll thunder past the dull cardboard boxes that Banarang calls shops, I'll skim over the Bridge Street potholes without feeling a bump and I'll fly up the freeway, bound for the city and civilisation.

Bones Carter is done with Banarang and his backwater existence. There's not much to do but hang out with his friends, make bad rap music and count down the days until the end of school and the beginning of his new life in the city.

Then Naya comes to town. Brilliant, black and beautiful, she wants to change the world. She thinks Bones is a well of untapped potential. Bones thinks she's delusional—but she makes him feel more hopeful than he has in a long time.

Bonesland is a wild ride through the small-town agonies of adolescence, packed with sex, drugs, love and hip-hop.

Brendan Lawley is a writer living in Melbourne. Bonesland is his first novel.

'This amusing, poignant coming-of-age story deftly addresses some of the issues facing today's teens, from mental health to social media, and puts a fresh spin on a familiar message about the value of being yourself.' Books+Publishing


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Publisher: The Text Publishing Company

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781925626629
  • File size: 2002 KB
  • Release date: May 1, 2018

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781925626629
  • File size: 2002 KB
  • Release date: May 1, 2018

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Shortlisted for the 2017 Text Prize

As soon as I finish school I'll have the car packed. I'll thunder past the dull cardboard boxes that Banarang calls shops, I'll skim over the Bridge Street potholes without feeling a bump and I'll fly up the freeway, bound for the city and civilisation.

Bones Carter is done with Banarang and his backwater existence. There's not much to do but hang out with his friends, make bad rap music and count down the days until the end of school and the beginning of his new life in the city.

Then Naya comes to town. Brilliant, black and beautiful, she wants to change the world. She thinks Bones is a well of untapped potential. Bones thinks she's delusional—but she makes him feel more hopeful than he has in a long time.

Bonesland is a wild ride through the small-town agonies of adolescence, packed with sex, drugs, love and hip-hop.

Brendan Lawley is a writer living in Melbourne. Bonesland is his first novel.

'This amusing, poignant coming-of-age story deftly addresses some of the issues facing today's teens, from mental health to social media, and puts a fresh spin on a familiar message about the value of being yourself.' Books+Publishing


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