Dreamboat Dad
Author(s): Alan Duff
Yank is an ordinary enough teenager, except that he lives in a thermal wonderland (frequented by tourists eager to view the geysers and boiling mud) and except for the fact that one of those tourists (an American soldier visiting during the Second World War) was his father. The locals gave the boy the nickname of Yank, a name that makes him different and ensures his mother's husband will never accept him as his own. So who was Yank's real father? Yank has only his dreams to fill the void, until the day a letter arrives ...A compelling novel with an unexpected revelation that throws a powerful punch. First published November 2008.
Product Information
Alan Duff was born in Rotorua in 1950 and now lives in Havelock North. He has published six previous novels ( Once Were Warriors, One Night out Stealing, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, Both Sides of the Moon, Szabad and Jake's Long Shadow), a novella (State Ward), several children's books and three non-fiction works (Maori: The Crisis and teh Challenge, Out of the Mists and Steam and Alan Duff's Maori Heroes). Once Were Warriors won the Pen Best First Book for Fiction Award and along with What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? was made into an internationally acclaimed film for which he wrote the original screenplay.
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.335
- : 01 November 2008
- : 233mm X 153mm X 19mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alan Duff
- : Paperback
- : 823.2
- : very good
- : 286
