Summary
From this award-winning and best-selling author comes a story of two young men.
As Andy and his mates head inexorably towards the bloody, torturous Western Front, Henry and his mates face challenges, dangerous situations and tragedies of their own.
Now published as an Anzac Centenary edition with a new Preface from the author.
Andy Lansell, killed in the First World War in 1918, lies in a small cemetery in the north of France. Henry Lyon, in a borrowed Volvo station wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143001300 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143001302 |
| Author: | David Metzenthen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2003 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 13-17 |
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David Metzenthen
As a child, David Metzenthen was a nature boy who loved fishing, farm work, exploring the bush, and being outdoors under the stars. He also lived very much inside his own head, feeling that the world was a place of unlimited adventure. He harboured dreams of becoming a cowboy, a fisherman, a farmer, a sailor, or a writer.
Instead, he left home at eighteen with a copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road for company and hitch-hiked his way around New Zealand. Returning to Australia, David worked as a builder’s labourer and advertising copywriter before finding success as a writer of books for children and young adults.
David Metzenthen now lives with his wife and two children in Melbourne and is one of Australia’s top writers for young people. He has received many awards for excellence, including:
- 2000 CBCA Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Stony Heart Country
- 2003 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Wildlight
- 2003 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Boys of Blood and Bone
- 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Boys of Blood and Bone
- 2004 CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Older Readers Honour Book for Boys of Blood and Bone
- 2008 CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Older Readers Honour Book for Black Water
- 2010 CBCA Award for Book of the Year: Older Readers for Jarvis 24
- 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award shortlist for Jarvis 24
- 2010 WA Premier’s Literary Award shortlist for Jarvis 24
- 2010 Inky Awards shortlist for Jarvis 24
- 2010 SA Festival Awards for Literature shortlist for Jarvis 24
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