{"product_id":"the-origin-of-me","title":"The Origin of Me","description":"Author: Gallate, Bernard\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780143789628\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 34mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beguilingly original and satirical debut novel of friendships, imagination, and the bodies we live in\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLincoln Locke's fifteen-year-old life is turned upside down when he's thrust into bachelor-pad living with his father, after his parents' marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers Lincoln a new set of peers - the cr me de la cr me of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded - and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside his head, doesn't make life any easier; nor does Lincoln's growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a search for answers to big LIFE questions, he turns to the school library, where he spies a nineteenth-century memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy One Redeeming Affliction\u003c\/i\u003e by Edwin Stroud, a one-time star of Melinkoff's Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. As Lincoln slowly reads this peculiar, life-changing book, the past reaches into his present in fascinating and alarming ways. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWays that defy imagination . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a song to friendship, to young love, to the joy of imagination, and to celebrating differences.","brand":"Ships in 4 to 7 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41702545784990,"sku":"UBD-9780143789628","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/products\/9780143789628.jpg?v=1653388738","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/the-origin-of-me","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}