Town

Resource Information

The work Town 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.

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Label

Town

Statement of responsibility

James Roy

Creator

• trueRoy, James, 1968-

Subject

• City and town life -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenagers -- Australia
• trueTeenagers -- Social conditions
• Young adult fiction
• trueAustralia

Genre

• Young adult fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Town is a collection of thirteen linked short stories for young adults. Set in a small unnamed Australian town over the course of a year, there is one story for each month, plus an overarching story to close, and each is told from the point of view of a different young person. These young men and women know each other - some intimately, some as friends, some as enemies and rivals, and some as mere aquaintances - and as the different characters appear in each other's stories, a vivid mosaic of the group's social structure begins to emerge. During the telling of these stories, which range in length from 2,000 words to 10,000 words, we learn much about the lives of these young people, who are all different in their own ways, and yet similar to each other - and to the young adult reader - in so many other distinctly recognisable ways

Award

• NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2008.
• Inky Awards (Australia): Gold Inky, 2008.

Cataloging source

ANL

Index

no index present

Intended audience

For secondary school students

Literary form

short stories

Target audience

adolescent