Boy Swallows Universe

SKU: 9781460757765
Boy Swallows Universe - 9781460757765 - Trent Dalton - HarperCollins - The Little Lost Bookshop

Boy Swallows Universe

SKU: 9781460757765
Author: Trent Dalton | Publisher: HarperCollins

An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want to go. Eli Bell's life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli's life is Slim--a notorious felon and national record-holder for successful prison escapes--who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother.

Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a seedy suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this twelve-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism. Life, however, insists on throwing obstacles in Eli's path--most notably Tytus Broz, Brisbane's legendary drug dealer. But the real trouble lies ahead. Eli is about to fall in love, face off against truly bad guys, and fight to save his mother from a certain doom--all before starting high school. A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is the tale of an adolescent boy on the cusp of discovering the man he will be. Powerful and kinetic, Trent Dalton's debut is sure to be one of the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novels you will experience.

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A so,Ute rubbish

I don’t know where Dalton did his research. I lived in Darra all my childhood and a good portion of my adult life, only leaving in 2010. It certainly was not a seedy place seething with crime. The population were mostly working people who owned their homes, and lived normal lives. It was pretty much like any other suburb in Brisbane, isolated drug use like you would have found in most areas particularly West End. It’s a shame that this pleasant quiet suburb has been besmirched in this way.

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