Turtle

Resource Information

The work Turtle represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Turtle

Statement of responsibility

Gary Bryson

Creator

• Bryson, Gary, 1955-

Subject

• trueDomestic fiction
• Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
• Mothers and sons -- Fiction

Genre

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Set in a bleak and rain-bedrizzled Glasgow, this is the story of Donald Pinelli, whose mother Trixie is not only mad, she's psychic too - not a good combination, especially when it means she's convinced Donald is cursed to die by drowning on his eighteenth birthday. As if that it isn't enough, Donald has to contend with a gangster father, siblings who hate him and a best friend who betrays him. Life's mince, and no mistake. But an unexpected encounter with a cantankerous turtle in a rundown zoo abruptly sets young Donald on a crash course in survival. Years later, Trixie's death brings an older but not much wiser Donald back to Glasgow - to attend her funeral, sort through his childhood memories, come to terms with his failures, and maybe, who knows, forge a new life for himself without his carapace of bitterness and resentment."--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

ANL

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

general