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This mortal boy / Fiona Kidman.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 295 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780143771807
  • 0143771809
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ACORN FOUNDATION FICTION PRIZE 2019.
Summary: "Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders."--Publisher information.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction Fiction KIDM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available i2179260
Fiction Stratford Fiction Fiction KID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A00824609
Fiction Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction Fiction KIDM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available i2179259
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"Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders."--Publisher information.

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ACORN FOUNDATION FICTION PRIZE 2019.

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