Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
238 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary |
Colt Jenson and his younger brother, Bastian, have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts — toys, bikes, all that glitters most — and makes them the envy of the neighborhood. To the local kids, the Jensons are a family out of a movie, and Rex a hero — successful, attentive, attractive, always there to lend a hand. But to Colt he's an impossible figure: unbearable, suffocating. Has Colt got Rex wrong, or has he seen something in his father that will destroy their fragile new lives? |
Subject |
Coming of age -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Australia -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Suburban life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
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Realistic fiction.
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Young adult fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans.
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ISBN |
0763679496 (hardcover) |
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9780763679491 (hardcover) |
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