The Resource Calypso summer, Jared Thomas
Calypso summer, Jared Thomas
Resource Information
The item Calypso summer, Jared Thomas 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 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Calypso summer, Jared Thomas 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 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley Beach Health Food shop where his boss pressures him to gather Aboriginal plants for natural remedies. Growing up in urban Adelaide and with little understanding of his mother's traditional background, Calypso endeavours to find the appropriate native plants. This leads him to his Nukunu family in Port Augusta and the discovery of a world steeped in cultural knowledge
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 224 pages
- Note
- "The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2014)
- Isbn
- 9781922142122
- Label
- Calypso summer
- Title
- Calypso summer
- Statement of responsibility
- Jared Thomas
- Subject
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Australian fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Nyunga (Australian people) -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Australia -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Aboriginal Australian literature
- Young men -- Australia -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia | South Australia -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley Beach Health Food shop where his boss pressures him to gather Aboriginal plants for natural remedies. Growing up in urban Adelaide and with little understanding of his mother's traditional background, Calypso endeavours to find the appropriate native plants. This leads him to his Nukunu family in Port Augusta and the discovery of a world steeped in cultural knowledge
- Awards note
- State Library of Queensland Black&Write!, 2013.
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thomas, Jared
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians
- Young men
- Teenage boys
- Nyunga (Australian people)
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Calypso summer, Jared Thomas
- Note
- "The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2014)
- 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
- 000052978566
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922142122
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)882083669
- Label
- Calypso summer, Jared Thomas
- Note
- "The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2014)
- 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
- 000052978566
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922142122
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)882083669
Subject
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Australian fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Nyunga (Australian people) -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Australia -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Aboriginal Australian literature
- Young men -- Australia -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia | South Australia -- Fiction
Genre
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Australian fiction
- Aboriginal Australian literature
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