Dalton, Trent,

Boy swallows universe / Trent Dalton. - 501 pages ; 20 cm.

First published: 2018.

Brisbane, 1983. A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

9781460757765

be2019009669


HM Prison, Brisbane--Fiction.


1900-1999


Modern & contemporary fiction.
Prisons--Queensland--Brisbane--Fiction.
Families--Queensland--Fiction.
Children of prisoners--Queensland--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Queensland--Brisbane--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Working class--Australia--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Nineteen eighties--Fiction.
Suburbs--Queensland--Brisbane--Fiction.
Criminals--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Bookclub collection.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.


Brisbane (Qld.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Darra (Brisbane, Qld.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Brisbane (Qld.)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Brisbane (Qld.)--Fiction.


Bildungsromans.

A823.4