The origin of me

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Label

The origin of me

Statement of responsibility

Bernard Gallate

Title variation

The origin of me

Title variation remainder

a novel

Creator

• trueGallate, Bernard

Author

• trueGallate, Bernard

Subject

• Books and reading -- Fiction
• trueChildren of divorced parents
• Children of divorced parents -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueGenetics
• trueHigh school students
• trueHigh schools
• High schools -- Fiction
• Imagination -- Fiction
• Individual differences -- Fiction
• trueAustralian
• trueMisfits (Persons)
• Moving, Household -- Fiction
• Private schools -- Fiction
• trueRich people
• trueSecrets
• Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
• trueTeenage boys
• Teenage boys -- Fiction
• Teenagers -- Fiction
• Life change events -- Fiction
• Australian fiction

Genre

• 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