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Looking for Alibrandi
by Melina Marchetta
Published by Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
ISBN
9781761047206
Originally published in 1992 this 30th anniversary hard cover edition celebrates this classic story of a 17 year old in her final year of high school. She ponders life, her heritage, life at her elite girls school with other students from well to do families.
Josephine or Josy as he prefers won a scholarship and travels across from Sydney's inner west to the eastern suburbs everyday.
Melina Marchetta's debut book won several awards, and soon became a modern classic. The book was also made into a film .
It is easy to read as it deals with the turmoils of growing into adulthood and at the same time meeting her father for the first time.
This last year of school is also the year she falls in love for the first time and discovers her real identity and heritage. Josephine lives with her hardworking mother, mama and sees her nona (grandmother) after school most days with whom she likes to talk and find out more about her grandmother's past and when she arrived in Queensland from Italy.
Her father Michael, now a barrister whom at first she didn't want to like because of what he did to her mother, she finds not only does she gets along well with him, she likes him. As Josephine wants to study law they find they have more in common.`
It's a story filled with every day life of a smart 17 year old, discovering heritage, her family, her feelings, love, studying for the HSC and her future, her interactions with friends and cohorts at school of various classes and how she deals with it all.
This anniversary edition includes photographs, letters, reviews, articles and mementoes from the time of its first publication and reception, and extracts from the original edited manuscript and Melina's correspondence with her editor and publisher.
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