State Ward
Duff, Alan.
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Charlie Wilson, the 'state house boy' from Two Lakes, is sent to Riverton Boys' Home as a state ward 'until such time as you are seen fit to return to society'.The door in the cell block isn't the only thing that Charlie finds is for real - there's also the name 'George' scrawled on the walls and, by it, the word 'kehua' or ghost . . . A novella drawn from Alan Duff's own memories of his time spent in a boys' home. Those years of Alan's life will be described in his forthcoming autobiography, making this fictional account particularly interesting.129 p. :
ill.
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Author notes;New Zealand novelist and screenwriter Alan Duff is the founder of the Alan Duff Foundation and the Books in Homes program.
His novel, Once Were Warriors, about violence in a Maori ghetto, won the PEN Best First Book Award in 1991 and was made into a movie in 1994. He will be at the Oz, New Zealand festival of literature and arts program in 2015 in London.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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| Dewey: | F |
| call #: | DUF |
| ISBN: | 1869412141 |
| pub: | 1994 |
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