The origin of me
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The origin of me
Resource Information
The work The origin of me 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
- The origin of me
- Statement of responsibility
- Bernard Gallate
- Title variation
- The origin of me
- Title variation remainder
- a novel
- Subject
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- Books and reading -- Fiction
- Children of divorced parents -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- Imagination -- Fiction
- Individual differences -- Fiction
- Australian
- Moving, Household -- Fiction
- Private schools -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A beguilingly original and satirical debut novel of friendships, imagination, and the bodies we live in Lincoln Locke's fifteen-year-old life is turned upside down when he's thrust into bachelor-pad living with his dad, after his parents' marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers him a new set of peers - the crème de la crème of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded - and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside Lincoln's head, doesn't make life any easier; nor does Lincoln's growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn. On a search for answers to the big LIFE questions, he turns to the hallowed school library, where he spies Edwin Stroud's nineteenth-century memoir, My One Redeeming Affliction. The book weaves itself into Lincoln's life in ways more fascinating and alarming than he could have imagined. When he meets Bert McGill, the local junkyard hermit, Lincoln finds among the detritus of Bert's life tantalising glimpses of the enigmatic Stroud, star of Melinkoff's Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. He begins to piece together a time past, of dubious relationships and, it turns out, of redeeming afflictions. Audacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, The Origin of Me is a story of friendships, of young love, of imagination, and of celebrating differences, past and present
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- Target audience
- general
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