{"product_id":"9780143571759-secondhand-of-a-boy","title":"Of a Boy","description":"The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion.\n\n\nWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize\n\nThe year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home . . .\n\n'Far away the best new Australian piece of fiction I have read, rivalling the achievements of Thursday's child.' Peter Craven, The Age\n\n'The writing is spare, the images crystalline . . .remarkable.' The Guardian (UK)\n\n'Hartnett's work is a gem, the climax as taut as a triller and . . . heart wrenching.' Weekend Australian\n\n'Effortlessly moving form matter-of-fact to mystical, at times exquisitely painful to read, Of a Boy is an almost suffocatingly powerful evocation of the emotional life of the very young . . .  for  anyone who recalls being a child. And everyone who doesn't.' Sydney Morning Herald\n\n'Sonya Hartnett's Hauntingly beautiful part-family drama, part-mystery, captures the vulnerability of childhood and has a high-voltage ending you'll find hard to forget.' Australian Women's Weekly","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49079253401819,"sku":"9780143571759-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3c425451-f972-46de-ae06-1e84cc97b83b.jpg?v=1786117543","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780143571759-secondhand-of-a-boy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}