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Hard Yards
A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.
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A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.
Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents – he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner city's harsh code, there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through foster care, juvenile detention, and poverty. He's an athlete, aching towards the dream of Olympic qualification. He's even coping with being white in the turbulent Aboriginal family of his girlfriend. But when cousin Stanley dies in custody, and Roo finds his father in the same week, trouble starts biting at his heels.
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Hard Yards by Melissa Lucashenko receives praise for its authentic representation of Australian idiom and culture. Judges and readers alike commend Lucashenko for her ability to address challenging topics with a style that uplifts and resonates emotionally.
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ISBN: 9780702266089
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 October 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Edition: 2nd ed.
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 274g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Killing Darcy won the Royal Blind Society Award and was shortlisted for an Aurealis award. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Edenglassie has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year.
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