The Resource My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent
My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent
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The item My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero -- and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 417 pages
- Note
- First published in the United States by Riverhead Books in 2017
- Isbn
- 9780008185220
- Label
- My absolute darling
- Title
- My absolute darling
- Statement of responsibility
- Gabriel Tallent
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero -- and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer
- Cataloging source
- QRML
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tallent, Gabriel
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Coming of age
- Survival
- High school students
- Friendship
- Interpersonal relations
- Fathers and daughters
- Teenage girls
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent
- Note
- First published in the United States by Riverhead Books in 2017
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060640980
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 417 pages
- Isbn
- 9780008185220
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1001724674
- Label
- My absolute darling, Gabriel Tallent
- Note
- First published in the United States by Riverhead Books in 2017
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060640980
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 417 pages
- Isbn
- 9780008185220
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1001724674
Subject
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- High school students -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- trueBildungsromans
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
Genre
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- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2017
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2017
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