Melina Marchetta
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| Title | : | Looking for Alibrandi |
| Author | : | Melina Marchetta |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 313 pages |
| Published | : | May 9th 2006 by Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published October 5th 1992) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Fiction. Romance |
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For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn’t be any stricter—but that doesn’t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life.Caught between the old-world values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom of her mom, and the boys who continue to mystify her, Josephine is on the ride of her life. This will be the year she falls in love, the year she discovers the secrets of her family’s past—and the year she sets herself free.
Told with unmatched depth and humor, this novel—which swept the pool of Australian literary awards and became a major motion picture—is one to laugh through and cry with, to cherish and remember.
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| Original Title: | Looking for Alibrandi |
| ISBN: | 0375836942 (ISBN13: 9780375836947) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://melinamarchetta.wordpress.com/looking-for-alibrandi-3/ |
| Characters: | Josephine Alibrandi, Jacob Coote, John Barton, Christina Alibrandi, Katia Alibrandi, Michael Andretti |
| Setting: | Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) |
| Literary Awards: | New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Script Writing Award (2000), Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Book of the Year: Older Readers (1993), Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) for Secondary (1993), Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Older Readers (2000), West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Older Readers (1994) South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2002), W.A. Young Readers Book Award (WAYRA) (1994), Fairlight Talking Book of the Year NSW for Best Book (2000), Australian Multicultural Children's BOTY Award (1993) |
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Update 6/13/2016. Love Josie and her big mouth.Update 3/24/2012I feel like Josie and Jacob grow up to be Francesca's parents. Original 2010 reviewEnjoyed Melina Marchetta's debut novel very much, even though it was not as strong and heartbreaking as her Printz-winning Jellicoe Road.Looking for Alibrandi is a simple coming-of-age story (oh, how I hate this expression!). Josephine is a 17-year old Australian of Italian descend. She is in her last year of school and it's a time in her life whenYou know something, Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as John. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming. To me, there are three different kinds of books, one where the book is simply unsatisfactory. Second where it is only appropriate for its certain era. And third where I just knew this book has made a lasting impression on me.Looking for Alibrandi falls to the third category. From the
I think it would be an understatement to say I loved this book. Although Looking for Alibrandi is by no means my favorite Marchetta novel, it's definitely tied with The Piper's Son for third. (In case you were wondering, Saving Francesca is my favorite followed closely by Jellicoe Road. ) In many ways, I feel as if Looking for Alibrandi is Marchetta's most personal novel - I felt as if I could feel parts of her within it. Although authors pour a part of their soul into every work of
I'm good at the reviewing part. The thoughts come and I just jot them down, but damn I must have tried to write this one for at least 3 times now. And frankly I'm getting pissed off. So let me try this one more time.It's the weakest Marchetta novel I've read to date. It doesn't pull on your heart-strings. And whereas her books are so character driven, I felt no connection to any character this time around (apart perhaps a little to John.) I did find how Josie dealt with not feeling accepted and
I can definitely see why this novel won a whole bunch of awards. There's a lot of layers to this book, just like all of the other Marchetta novels I've read. This is the story of a girl dealing with all of the complexities of having two nationalities, while not really fitting in to either one. It's also about three generations of Italian women who broke the rules. Throw in a coming of age story with first love and all of that good stuff, and you still don't have half of what this book is about.
Reread: April 2018If you have been following me on Twitter and Instagram then you'd know that I recently went to Sydney and found old covers of Alibrandi (and bought them, obvs).Reread this one on the plane home and the setting totally came to life for me now that I know how Sydney looked like. GOD I MISS SYDNEY SO MUCH-Reread: Jan 2018[Frankie Spinelli voice] Oh my God I'm so devastated-My Twitter reading thread: HERE.Reread: June 2016I skim Marchetta all the time but this is my first proper
5 "Cloaked by Reminiscence" Stars. Again. The seventeen Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is hat you keep learning truths after seventeen, and I want to keep on learning truths till I die. Oh yes, again. Melina Marchetta, I'm telling you, people are going to think I write repetitive reviews for your books because I'm in a severe dearth of adjectives now.Amazing ?Lovely ?Beautiful ?I ended up in the thesaurus looking for synonyms but well, I
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