Eddy, Eddy
Author(s): Kate De Goldi
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.
Product Information
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
Kate De Goldi has published a range of short stories, collections and novels for adults and children. Her novel The 10pm Question (2008) was published to critical acclaim both in New Zealand and overseas, quickly becoming an iconic piece of New Zealand literature. De Goldi has been extensively involved with numerous programmes, committees and organisations focused on creative writing, reading and New Zealand literature.
General Fields
- :
- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 386.0
- : December 2021
- : {"length"=>["23.4"], "width"=>["15.3"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kate De Goldi
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.3
- : near fine
- : 288
- : FA