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y separately published work icon Careless single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Careless
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Careless Deborah Robertson , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2006 Z1274224 2006 single work novel (taught in 1 units) 'Eight-year-old Pearl tries very hard to get things right. She watches over her small brother and manages her mother's happiness, while carefully guarding her private passions. But the events of a summer's day are about to change Pearl's life, and nothing may ever be right again. In a cooler, greener suburb, Sonia is learning to live alone after the death of her husband, and at the edge of the city, close to the beaches, the young artist Adam Logan is hoping that his recent celebrity will open the doors to a new life. In ways connected but unforeseen, Pearl's tragedy will soon affect the worlds of these two strangers. Combining the intimacy of a family's heartache, with the suspense of a thriller, Careless is a gripping, seductive novel about the ties of caring and responsibility, that are formed, and broken, in our society. It is a novel about our times.' (Backcover) Literature in an Age of Terror Murdoch University 2010
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