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Suburban Freak Show
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Julia Lawrinson (Goodreads Author)
Suburban Freak Show is a marvellously witty tale about Jay, a deeply cynical, delightfully disturbed girl stuck in the suburbs with a fanatical greenie. It's going to take more then a massive IQ to save Jay from a first-year university experience that includes nuts, dimwits and extreme headbangers!
224 pages
Published
February 2006
by Lothian Books
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Witty, cynical and ultimately feel-good YA novel about Uni, green evangelism, partying and post-structuralist ethical dilemmas. In the words of its protagonist "Absorbing yet futile, challenging yet ultimately meaningless. Kind of like study, but more so." Wickedly funny.
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I found myself losing my attention for most of the book.
The main character was a classic. So were most of the characters. But then the entire book went downfall, and I found myself skipping pages til the end.
Maybe it was because this book was too unique. And lacked a proper plot. Which is kind of disappointing, because I loved the cover and thought I'd love the book.
It's funny at most aspects. And it's kind of "green" for people who care about the environment. But it's not really for me. Ther...more
The main character was a classic. So were most of the characters. But then the entire book went downfall, and I found myself skipping pages til the end.
Maybe it was because this book was too unique. And lacked a proper plot. Which is kind of disappointing, because I loved the cover and thought I'd love the book.
It's funny at most aspects. And it's kind of "green" for people who care about the environment. But it's not really for me. Ther...more
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Julia Lawrinson is an Australian writer of children's and young adult fiction. Her debut novel Obsession (Fremantle Press, 2001) won the Western Australian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Writing: since then her work has been shortlisted for numerous awards. Her latest book is Chess Nuts (Puffin 2010), and she's working on a novel about four girls, one boy and a secret.
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