Description
A CLASSIC NZ NOVEL ABOUT A BOY In The God Boy Jimmy Sullivan, aged thirteen, narrates the events which changed his life two years before, when he was living an ordinary life in an ordinary small-town home with Dad and Mum. Even at the time of narration, Jimmy does not fully grasp the significance of what then happened, though the reader does; but at eleven, when he was in the centre of the rising storm, the boy understood little of it at all. He can only report its observed phenomena. The two layers of meaning contrived by this method of telling give Cross's narration depth, for we see double all the time, aware both of what Jimmy knew and of what Jimmy did not know. This is a sophisticated literary technique, sustained throughout the book with remarkable flair.
ISBN:9780140018110
