How the Light Gets In
of M.J. Hyland
Description
A powerful debut from a young Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled. welcoming ... until she starts having to live in the suffocating and repressed atmosphere of their suburban mansion and things begin to go terribly wrong. of American Beauty in its dissection of engrained prejudices and middle-class hypocrisy. In Lou Connor, Hyland has created a larger-than-life protagonist who mesmerises the reader with her vivacity and vulnerability, from hopeful beginning to unexpected, haunting end.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336 pages
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Publication Date June 2nd 2005
- First Publication 07/01/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9781841956114
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Sydney, New South Wales (Australia)']
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