So Close to Home Mick Cummins
- Bib ID:
- 10018408
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cummins, Mick, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library Victoria
- Description:
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- Boon Wurrung Country South Melbourne, Victoria Affirm Press 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.8MB
- ISBN:
- 9781922930828
- Summary:
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Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to heroin. His mum has kicked him out of home in a last-ditch move to help him get straight, and he wanders the streets of South Melbourne, living on his wits and sleeping rough - all the while chasing drugs, dreams and love. Desperate to fund his addiction, Aaron climbs into the car of The Man, a distinguished elderly gentleman willing to pay for a certain kind of relationship. This regular cash could be the lifeline Aaron needs to start again, but The Man keeps raising spectres from Aaron's past that he'd rather forget. As Aaron gathers the courage to confront the events that derailed his life, his rage grows - and the consequences could be fatal. So Close to Home is a pacey, gritty and captivating novel exploring homelessness, power dynamics and the ties that bind. Social worker, debut author and winner of the prestigious VPLA for Unpublished Manuscript Mick Cummins has created a striking, emotionally complex and unnervingly tense narrative that poses one simple question: who can we ever truly rely on?
Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to heroin. His mum has kicked him out of home in a last-ditch move to help him get straight, and he wanders the streets of South Melbourne, living on his wits and sleeping rough, all the while chasing drugs, dreams and love. Desperate to fund his addiction, Aaron climbs into the car of The Man, a distinguished elderly gentleman willing to pay for a certain kind of relationship. This regular cash could be the lifeline Aaron needs to start again, but The Man keeps raising spectres from Aaron's past that he'd rather forget. As Aaron gathers the courage to confront the events that derailed his life, his rage grows and the consequences could be fatal.
- Notes:
- This title may contain content that is sensitive for some people.
- Awards:
- Victorian Premier's Literacy Award 2023.
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Drug addicts -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Gay men -- Fiction
- Homeless teenagers -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Betrayal
- Families
- Life change events
- Secrecy
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- AUS fiction (Victoria)
- Genre/Form:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cummins, Mick
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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