The Resource The Round House
The Round House
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The item The Round House 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 The Round House 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
- A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police.While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again. Or so he hopes.The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It is a story of vivid survival; and tt confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists
- Isbn
- 9781472108173
- Label
- The Round House
- Title
- The Round House
- Summary
- A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police.While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again. Or so he hopes.The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It is a story of vivid survival; and tt confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists
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- Erdrich, Louise
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- Literature
- Fiction
- Label
- The Round House
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:aa80af71-7f7a-49e2-a4c5-f97ec8dc0034
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9781472108173
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- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Round House
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:aa80af71-7f7a-49e2-a4c5-f97ec8dc0034
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781472108173
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
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- trueAlex Award: 2013
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2012
- trueFor Fans Of . . . Where the Crawdads Sing
- trueIndies' Choice Book Awards: Adult Fiction
- trueMinnesota Book Awards: Novel & Short Story
- trueNational Book Awards: Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2012
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2013
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