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y separately published work icon Leaving Jetty Road single work   novel   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Leaving Jetty Road
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'Nat, Lise, and Sofia are best friends. This year, their last year of high school, none of them foresees the changes that will occur in their lives.

'This is the year that Nat—the go-between, the peacemaker—gets a job and meets a drop-dead gorgeous chef named Josh.

'This is the year that Lise—quiet, shy, and solitary Lise—decides to take control of her life by taking control of her weight.

'This is the year that Sofia—the ultimate guy magnet—gets her nose pierced and falls seriously in love for the first time in her life.

'This is the year that will change each of them forever.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Anorexia nervosa.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Unconfirmed.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 2004 .
      image of person or book cover 1497290761339667782.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 266p.
      ISBN: 0207200157
    • c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Knopf ,
      2006 .
      image of person or book cover 4382000196192059403.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 256p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 13 June 2006.

      ISBN: 9780375834882, 0375834885

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Starving Desire : New (Deleuzean) Readings of Anorexia in Australian Young Adult Fiction Kate McInally , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 16 no. 2 2006; (p. 168-172)

McInally is concerned with fictional representations of eating disorders and uncovering any intersections between anorexia and girl-girl desire. McInally 'investigates this interface' in Killing Aurora (Barnes) and Leaving Jetty Road, (Burton) by drawing on the post-structuralist concepts of Deleuze and Guattari as a way of thinking beyond the binarised terms that shape and structure our lives and identities (168). For Deleuze and Guattari, 'desire is an affirmative mobile force that propels living things towards each other' (168) and it is this proposition that McInally utilises to critique hetero-normative cultural systems. She argues that anorexia is 'interrelated to the cultural insistence that girls move beyond intense, passionate and desirous relationships with each other, into normative heterosexuality', a sexuality that upholds western patriarchal capitalist paradigms that 'privilege lack over connection'(168). For McInally, Burton's novel follows this paradigm in its 'reductive and limiting ideologies regarding subjectivity, femininity and desire', while Barnes' novel offers a new and/or different way of reading desire which 'affirms its intense and connective potential outside binarised codifications' (172).

Untitled Jenette Graham , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 63-64)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Rebecca Burton at My School Fran Knight , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 13 no. 3 2005; (p. 12)
Untitled A. R. C. , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 13 no. 2 2005; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Val Mancini , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 3 2004; (p. 24)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Anne Briggs , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 19 no. 4 2004; (p. 39)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Untitled A. R. C. , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 13 no. 2 2005; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Virginia Lowe , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 48 no. 4 2004; (p. 29-30)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Jenette Graham , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 63-64)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Untitled Val Mancini , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 3 2004; (p. 24)

— Review of Leaving Jetty Road Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work novel
Lesson in Life Rebecca Burton , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 11 September 2004; (p. 8)
Rebecca Burton at My School Fran Knight , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 13 no. 3 2005; (p. 12)
Starving Desire : New (Deleuzean) Readings of Anorexia in Australian Young Adult Fiction Kate McInally , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 16 no. 2 2006; (p. 168-172)

McInally is concerned with fictional representations of eating disorders and uncovering any intersections between anorexia and girl-girl desire. McInally 'investigates this interface' in Killing Aurora (Barnes) and Leaving Jetty Road, (Burton) by drawing on the post-structuralist concepts of Deleuze and Guattari as a way of thinking beyond the binarised terms that shape and structure our lives and identities (168). For Deleuze and Guattari, 'desire is an affirmative mobile force that propels living things towards each other' (168) and it is this proposition that McInally utilises to critique hetero-normative cultural systems. She argues that anorexia is 'interrelated to the cultural insistence that girls move beyond intense, passionate and desirous relationships with each other, into normative heterosexuality', a sexuality that upholds western patriarchal capitalist paradigms that 'privilege lack over connection'(168). For McInally, Burton's novel follows this paradigm in its 'reductive and limiting ideologies regarding subjectivity, femininity and desire', while Barnes' novel offers a new and/or different way of reading desire which 'affirms its intense and connective potential outside binarised codifications' (172).

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