The Skinny Louie Book (Popular Penguin)
Author(s): Fiona Farrell
Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century. Fiona Farrell's The Skinny Louie Book - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books. First published 1882.
Product Information
Winner of New Zealand Book Award Fiction Category 1993.
The Skinny Louie Book (1992), which was Fiona Farrell's first novel, won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Her novels The Hopeful Traveller (2002) and Book Book (2004) were runners-up at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Her most recent novel was 2009's Limestone.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Group (NZ)
- : Penguin Books (NZ)
- : 01 January 2010
- : 178mm X 111mm
- : New Zealand
- : 18 February 2020
- : books
Special Fields
- : Fiona Farrell
- : 285pp
- : Very Good
- : 823.2
- : Reprint
- : Paperback
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