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December Boys

Name: December Boys
Author: Michael Noonan
ISBN: 978-1846470479

Michael Noonan

The possibility that one of them might be adopted adds an element of rivalry to the adventures of five orphans spending their Christmas holiday at an Australian seaside settlement in the late 1930s.

Жанры

Издательство:

Catnip

ISBN:

978-1846470479

Год издания:

1963

Язык:

Английский

240 страниц, Мягкая обложка

Формат: 13 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm

Язык: English

Возрастные ограничения:

18+

Интересные факты

Points of difference: In book it was East coast of Australia in the 1930s after the Great Depression in Australia and before the outbreak of World War II. The film was shot on Kangaroo Island but was set on an unspecified part of the Australian mainland coast in the 1960s

Сюжет

“December Boys” is the story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a Catholic convent in outback Australia during the 1960s. As the boys watch younger kids get adopted by loving families, they begin to realize that as they get older, their turn may never come. When the convent sends the boys to visit the seaside one summer, they finally have something to look forward to.
While at the seaside, the boys meet a young couple unable to have children, who would make the perfect parents. The eldest of the boys, Maps, finds himself drawn to Lucy, a beautiful girl from down the coast. Competing to be the most adoptable, the rest of the boys, Sparks, Misty and Spit, severely test their friendships as long gestating feelings of rejection explode to the surface.
The bonds of friendship eventually overcome the rivalries, sealing forever the strong ties that bind the December boys as they learn the real meaning behind friendship, family and love.

Экранизации

“December Boys” is directed by Rod Hardy in 2007 year, adapted from Noonan’s novel by Marc Rosenberg, and stars Daniel Radcliffe as Maps, Christian Byers as Spark, Lee Cormie as Misty, James Fraser as Spit, Teresa Palmer as Lucy, and Jack Thompson as Bandy McAnsh.