TY - BOOK AU - Hobson,Ben TI - To become a whale SN - 9781760294397 : AV - PR9619.4.H6345 T63 2017 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Sydney, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Classic fiction (pre c 1945) KW - bicssc KW - Bildungsromans KW - Whaling stations KW - Fiction KW - Fathers and sons KW - Single fathers KW - Australia KW - Life change events KW - Whaling KW - Queenslands KW - Nineteen sixties KW - Mothers KW - Death KW - Teenage boys KW - Australian fiction KW - Coming of age KW - Grief KW - Noosa Island (Qld.) KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century KW - Moreton Island (Qld.) KW - History KW - Noosa Heads (Qld.) KW - Australian KW - Australian stories KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - lcgft KW - 21st century N1 - Record machine-generated from publisher information N2 - To Become a Whale tells the story of 13-year-old Sam Keogh, whose mother has died. Sam has to learn how to live with his silent, hitherto absent father, who decides to make a man out of his son by taking him to work at Tangalooma, then the largest whaling station in the southern hemisphere. What follows is the devastatingly beautiful story of a gentle boy trying to make sense of the terrible reality of whaling and the cruelty and alienation of his new world, the world of men. Set around Moreton Island and Noosa in 1961, To Become a Whale tells the story of 13-year-old Sam Keogh, whose mother has died. Sam has to learn how to live with his silent, hitherto absent father, who decides to make a man out of his son by taking him to work at Tangalooma, then the largest whaling station in the southern hemisphere. What follows is the devastatingly beautiful story of a gentle boy trying to make sense of the terrible reality of whaling and the cruelty and alienation of his new world, the world of men ER -