All the green year / Don Charlwood.
Series: Text classicsPublication details: Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2012.Description: xiii, 278 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781922079428 (pbk.) :
- A823.3 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | CHA | Available | 051493 |
Total reserves: 0
Previously published: 1965.
Also available online.
It was the end of an era; a year of ‘outlandish happenings’; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula.
His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble, and his best mate Johnno is busy seeing a girl—which leads Charlie to a nasty fight with Big Simmons.
First published in 1965, and subsequently made into a popular ABC TV series, All the Green Year is the story of a boy’s journey towards adulthood—‘not only the humour of it but its drama and pain’, as the 96-year-old Don Charlwood writes in his revised afterword.