Town: Everyone Has a Story

James Roy

oct 2007 · Univ. of Queensland Press

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In Town, James Roy turns his hand to the short story, using it to explore the lives of the young residents of an Australian town. This town doesn't have a name. But if it seems familiar, it's because we recognize the people who walk its streets. From the serendipity of an unexpected moment of connection, to the sadness of leaving home, and the pain of the desperate decisions we make, these stories take a personal and uncompromising look at life. Love and loss, grief, humor and passion. Hope and hopelessness. Thirteen linked short stories, spanning a year in the lives of thirteen young people, from a town near you. From the serendipity of an unexpected moment of connection, to the sadness of leaving home, and the pain of the desperate decisions we make, these stories take a personal and uncompromising look at life. Love and loss, grief, humor and passion. Hope and hopelessness. Thirteen linked short stories, spanning a year in the lives of thirteen young people, from a town near you.

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James Roy was born in western New South Wales in 1968. He writes fiction and non-fiction for young people. His first novel was Almost Wednesday (1996). He has written over twenty books including Captain Mack, Billy Mack's War, and One Thousand Hills (with Noel Zihabamwe) which won the 2016 New South Wales Premier's History Awards, Young People's History Prize and the 2017 New South Wales Premier's Ethel Turner Prize for Young People¿s Literature.