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Author Bryson, Gary, 1955-

Title Turtle / Gary Bryson
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008

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 MELB  827.04 B9166 A6/T  AVAILABLE
Description 311 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Summary "Set in a bleak and rain-bedrizzled Glasgow, this is the story of Donald Pinelli, whose mother Trixie is not only mad, she's psychic too - not a good combination, especially when it means she's convinced Donald is cursed to die by drowning on his eighteenth birthday. As if that it isn't enough, Donald has to contend with a gangster father, siblings who hate him and a best friend who betrays him. Life's mince, and no mistake. But an unexpected encounter with a cantankerous turtle in a rundown zoo abruptly sets young Donald on a crash course in survival. Years later, Trixie's death brings an older but not much wiser Donald back to Glasgow - to attend her funeral, sort through his childhood memories, come to terms with his failures, and maybe, who knows, forge a new life for himself without his carapace of bitterness and resentment."--Provided by publisher
Subject Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105032
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9781741753660 (paperback)