Golden Boys (novel)

Golden Boys
Author Sonya Hartnett
Country Australia
Language English
Genre novel
Publisher Penguin, Australia
Publication date
 2014
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 238
ISBN 9781926428611
Preceded by The Children of the King

Golden Boys (2014) is a novel by Australian author Sonya Hartnett. It has been shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Award.

Plot summary

Golden Boys is a novel of lost childhood innocence, and the loss of societal patterns of behaviour that allowed young children to roam the streets in the late 70s and early 80s. The novel tells the story of two twelve-year-olds, Colt Jenson and Freya Kiley, who are moving out of childhood as they realise that their families have dark secrets.

Notes

  • Dedication: For my own sisters and brothers.

Reviews

Linda Funnell in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel considers many "sombre themes" but is "saturated in a suburban landscape of decades past, where boys ride bicycles through silent streets, play pinball machines at the local milk bar, and hang out in the mouth of the huge stormwater drain beside a patch of waste ground, untroubled by mobile phones or the internet."[1] Victoria Flanagan in Sydney Review of Books noted that the author "has a talent for writing about difficult or contentious subjects in innovative and sensitive ways".[2]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Sonya Harnett's Golden Boys is a tale of darkness in summer", The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 September 2014
  2. ↑ "Not for Children", Sydney Review of Books, 10 October 2014
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