Melina Marchetta's stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl's story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Seller Inventory # 9780140360462īook Description Paperback. Author's 1st novel Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. A third generation Italian/Australian girl tells the story of her final school years and how she comes to terms with her family, her culture and her sexuality. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic. A moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year she searches for Alibrandi and finds the real truth about her family - and the identity she has been searching for. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls' school.

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Printz Award from the American Library Association for Jellicoe Road. The companion novel to Marchetta's award-winning book Saving Francesca, The Piper's Son, also received much acclaim in Australia and internationally, and in 2009 Marchetta won the prestigious Michael L. Her much-loved Australian classic, Looking for Alibrandi, swept the pool of literary awards when it was published, and was also released as a film, adapted by Marchetta, winning an AFI Award and an Independent Film Award for best screenplay, as well as the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award. She has published award-winning young adult, fantasy and crime fiction, including her acclaimed crime novel, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil. About the Author: Melina Marchetta is a bestselling author in more than twenty countries and eighteen languages.

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