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Lockie's survived his first year of high school, settling into a new town and his first mad love affair - it's all behind him; he made it! But the world of weirdness hasn't finished with him yet. His little brother's hormones have kicked in, his baby sister refuses to walk or talk - but eats anything in sight - his Dad arrests a sheep and his Mum seems to have checked out of the here and now. As Lockie's world turns upside down, he learns that life is never as simple as it seems and along show more the way finds out a lot more about himself than he ever realised was there. show lessTags
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Lockie's Mum leaves the family to themselves after being admitted to hospital with depression. All about taking responsibility for family, accepting help etc
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Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Western Australia. He attended a Creative Writing Course at Curtin University in Perth, and it was there that he began his first novel, An Open Swimmer. It was entered for The Australian/Vogel Award in 1981 and won. His other works include Shallows, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984; The Riders Winton, which show more won the Miles Franklin Award in 1992; and Island Home: A Landscape Memoir, the winner of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards, General nonfiction book of the year. The Boy Behind the Curtain, published in 2016, won the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Nonfiction. His books also include The Shepherd's Hut, Breath, and Dirt Music. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Lockie Leonard, Legend
- Original title
- Lockie Leonard, Legend
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Lockie Leonard
- Epigraph
- black hole sun
won't you come
and wash away the rain
black hole sun
won't you come
won't you come...
SOUNDGARDEN - Dedication
- for Bron
- First words
- Lockie Leonard shook the spray from his eyes, adjusted himself on the board and kept paddling as the wave rolled past and collapsed with a bum-tingling thud on the sandbar.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"You're a deadset legend."
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- 19
