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Sto caricando le informazioni... Gracey (1994)di James Moloney
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Sequel to Dougy. Gracey's come home to Cunningham on holidays. But now she's a state athletics champion and a private school student, and everything looks different - even frightening. Part history, part mystery, Gracey is a challenging story about the past and the present, murder and compassion, and black and white identity. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.3Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Elizabethan 1558-1625Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Reading age 14 to Adult
Series Young Adult Fiction
Awards:
Honour Book, CBCA Book of the Year Award, Older Readers, 1995.
Certificate of Commendation, Australian Human Rights Award, 1995.
Australian Multicultural Literature Award, Senior category, Office of Multicultural Affairs, 1995.
Annotation:
Two and a half years on from the events depicted in Dougy, Gracey is a successful student at a Brisbane boarding school and feeling she now has little in common with her family now settled in Cunningham, 'hole that it was'. There is much excitement and media interest when Dougy finds some old bones. It seems this is evidence of a massacre and different groups interpret the discovery to suit their own ends.
Excellent in every way, right down to the striking cover design.
A depiction of history and relationships as so very much more complex than what is fed to us via the media. As Gracey says to Kevin O'Shea, 'You should have stuck to the real story, Kevin, the whole complicated mess, instead of hunting ruthlessly for one man to blame'. The patterning is masterly, for example the juxtaposition of the modern day cop, at first so friendly and easygoing, with Stanley McNamara the reluctant killer. Both at first sympathetic but changed by circumstances. The notion of people and individuals being depicted, or depicting themselves, as victims, thereby taking refuge in blaming others, has great contemporary relevance beyond the situations portrayed in this book. ( )