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Losing it / Moira Burke.

Losing it / Moira Burke.
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ISBN 9781925498363 (paperback)
Name Burke, Moira author.
Title Losing it / Moira Burke.
Published Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017.
©1998
Description 200 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes Originally published: Addison-Wesley Longman, 1998.
Summary In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat. And Josie is surviving, or not--self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships. But her internal monologue-intense, immediate and raw-reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved. First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.
Subjects Teenagers -- Australia -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
Youth -- Australia -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
Genre Bildungsromans
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