Heather O'Neill
Paperback | Pages: 330 pages Rating: 3.98 | 19768 Users | 1505 Reviews
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| Title | : | Lullabies for Little Criminals |
| Author | : | Heather O'Neill |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 330 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 2006 by Harper Perennial |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada |
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A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable debut of a stunning literary talentHeather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life on the streets—and the strength, wits, and luck necessary for survival.
At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit than he does of his daughter. Baby's gift is a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her blossoming beauty has captured the attention of a charismatic and dangerous local pimp who runs an army of sad, slavishly devoted girls—a volatile situation even the normally oblivious Jules cannot ignore. And when an escape disguised as betrayal threatens to crush Baby's spirit, she will ultimately realize that the power of salvation rests in her hands alone.
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| Original Title: | Lullabies for Little Criminals |
| ISBN: | 0060875070 (ISBN13: 9780060875077) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jules, Baby |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2008), Governor General's |
| Literary Awards: | / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee (2007), CBC Canada Reads (2007), QWF (Quebec Writer's Federation) Award for Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (2007) |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 19768 Users | 1505 ReviewsJudgment Of Books Lullabies for Little Criminals
Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction Nominee, 2008 She makes a wish or two on the moon.Ultimately uplifting account of scrappy teenager Baby and her too-young father Julian, a sometimes-recovering heroin addict. The two are barely scraping by in 1980s Montreal when we meet them, and things get much, much worse before there's even a glimmer of hope. But Baby is blessed with good sense and good storytelling insight, so her first-person account is frequently poetic and always revelatory. Children,I don't think it looks like chick lit and it's quite good. I've also read some chick lit (I think) on occasion and it was also pretty good.
This book was a really good debut novel! A funny tidbit about this book before I review it: this was immensely popular when I was young. In my middle school and high school library, this book was always checked out. I don't know if it's because this is a Canadian book, or because it's set in Canada, but I definitely expected this to be a lot more popular than it is according to Goodreads. That being said, I'm glad I finally read this Canadian classic novel. It is set in Montreal, the city I live
Twelve-year old Baby lives with her drug-addicted, irresponsible twenty-seven-year old father in Montreal,Canada, where they move from place to place, from dump to dump. Her mom died and Jules, her dad, is still a kid himself.It is an endearing, upsetting, touching story - shocking at most, and depressing. But very well written. The prose is excellent. I am not convinced though that a twelve-year-old told the story, although the culture and behaviour was well expressed. But I could 'hear' the
A magnificently beautiful first novel, and I didnt want it to end!! ONeill has a magical, musical storytelling style that is a pure joy to read, even when the subject matter is as dark as this. The story is about 12-year-old Baby, being (kind of) raised by her heroin-addicted and shiftless single father. It is an engrossing account written from the perspective of this thoughtful, precocious and surprisingly philosophical youngster, a memoir of life in the seedy corners of Montreal a life that
If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or four hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.We forget, as we get older, how vulnerable it feels to be a child. To not be in charge. Not responsible for where you live, what you eat, or where your money comes from. In fact, we tend to idealize those days, thinking wouldnt it be wonderful to go back to
I couldn't put this book down. The narrators voice and descriptions were great. Some of the sentences made me want to laugh out loud and cry in the same moment. It was pretty disturbing throughout, as one should expect a story about a young teenage girl with a heroine addict father and deceased mother to be. Honestly, I read it under the impression that it was a memoir, so I really thought the story was true, at least as far as the author remembered it. I don't know if I would have enjoyed it
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