Eddy, Eddy
Author(s): Kate De Goldi
NZ Teen Fiction | Staff Picks - Helen | Staff Picks - Mary | 2023 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexpected form. As Eddy navigates his way through the Christchurch suburbs to Christmas, juggling competing responsibilities and an increasingly noisy interior world, he moves closer and closer to an overdue personal reckoning.Eddy, Eddy is a richly layered novel, deftly written with humour and pathos: a love story, peopled with flawed and comical characters, both human and animal; and a story of grief, the way its punch may leave you floundering - and how others can help you find your way back. Loosely mirroring A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Eddy, Eddy revels in language's stretch and play, the blessings of story and songs, and the giddy road to adulthood.
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Shortlisted for the 2023 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults - Young Adult Fiction Award category
'Intense, funny, shocking and exuberant, Eddy, Eddy is a brilliant, rich and effervescent novel, a swirling? polyphonic art song about faith, literature, language, music and death. But above all it's about life, and the myriad ways - sometimes right and sometimes dazzlingly wrong - that we find to save ourselves, when, like Eddy, the plates shift underneath our feet and the chasm opens.' Ursula Dubosarsky 'Lock your doors, put your phones on silent, and enjoy losing all track of time when you're introduced to Eddy and his complicated, endearing, off-beat world.'? Emma Neale 'Eddy Eddy is sublime: so subtle & beautiful.' Carole Beu, Women's Bookshop
General Fields
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- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 386.0
- : 01 January 2022
- : {"length"=>["23.4"], "width"=>["15.3"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kate De Goldi
- : FA
- : 288
- : near fine
- : 823.3
- : English
- : Paperback
