Melina Marchetta
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| Original Title: | The Piper's Son |
| ISBN: | 0670074233 (ISBN13: 9780670074235) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://melinamarchetta.wordpress.com/the-pipers-son-2/ |
| Characters: | Francesca Spinelli, Will Trombal, Thomas Mackee, Tara Finke, Justine Kalinsky, Georgie Finch, Siobhan Sullivan, Luca Spinelli, Dominic Mackee, Jimmy Hailer, Anabel Mackee |
| Setting: | Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) |
| Literary Awards: | New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Nominee for Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature (2011), Children's Book Council of Australia Award Nominee for Older Readers Book of the Year (2011), Prime Minister's |
| Literary Awards: | Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011), Queensland Premier's |
| Literary Awards: | Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2010) |
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The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family's hard-won healing on the other side of trauma. Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca—but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt, work at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father. Tom's in no shape to mend what's broken. But what if no one else is either? An unflinching look at family, forgiveness, and the fierce inner workings of love and friendship, The Piper's Son redefines what it means to go home again.List Epithetical Books The Piper's Son
| Title | : | The Piper's Son |
| Author | : | Melina Marchetta |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2010 by Penguin Australia/Viking |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Fiction. Realistic Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 11141 Users | 1404 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books The Piper's Son
"Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them."Marchetta is a writing god!!! I have spent the day re-reading parts of this book that I love. I didnt want this story to end.The Pipers Son is set 5 years after Saving Francesca. It is from Thomas Mackees POV and also his Aunty Georgias, POV. Thomas Mackee isnt the loveable misfit we all remember, he is sad and pissed off at the world. He is grieving the loss of hisMy love affair with Melina Marchetta continues! :DHer words, style, and voices make my heart beat faster, stomach drop and twist, and head whirl with thoughts and memories. The tone and feel of her words just fit right in my heart. Her stories seem to pulse with this coiled intensitya gritty beat that creeps up on me, sticks in my gut, and makes me smile, laugh or cry. Just when I think the sadness is going to overcome me, she throws in a jab of sly humor that makes me laugh out loud. I just
Update /7/21/16Didn't love as much as did originally, but the dialog is amazing, that's for sure.Update 8/23/12Well, Saving Francesca is not my favorite any more. For now I am sticking with the statement that I prefer her fantasies. Although it's hard to say how I feel about it after the next round of rereads. Otherwise, I pretty much stand by everything in the original review.Original reviewI don't know how Melina Marchetta does it - takes a story that seems so soap-operish and turns it into
4.5 STARS I came in this book, expecting a guffaws-a-minute marathon with Thomas Mackee, the "last bastion of patriarchal poor taste, arrested development and mental retardation". So it took me a couple of chapters to get into the groove of things seeing as this is actually a story about Tom AND his aunt Georgie, 5 years after Saving Francesca, living in the years after the death of a beloved family member. That and every possible issue you can cram in a New Adult-Adult book: family,
12/18/14 This is on sale on amazon for $1.99, great time to pick it up http://www.amazon.com/Pipers-Son-Meli...4.5 Super StarsMelina Marchette is the only author Ive found that can break and squish my heart more times than I can count in a book and make me love every minute of it and ask for more. The stories she tells about families that are strong and loving but have been broken by a tragedy and are trying to pick up the pieces again draw you in to the point you never want to leave. The only
"But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat that drenches his hair and face seem to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He's aiming for oblivion.Initial Final Page Thoughts.I feel so very stricken. How does MM do these things to my soul? High Points.Thomas Finch Mackee. Family. History. Honesty. Grief. Reality. Late night phone calls. Sydney International Airport. Attics. E-Mails. Impossible
I know I should have savoured this book in its entirety. I should have read slowly and taken my time. The book clearly deserves savouring. But I have no restraint. Instead, I holed up in my room for the whole afternoon (hurray for being a university student with Friday afternoons off!), neglecting food and any means of communication, and finished The Pipers Son in about eight hours, taking only very small breaks. Now I feel a bit lightheaded and dizzy, my eyes are puffy and a little red from
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