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  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2008)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee (2007)
  • CBC Canada Reads (2007)
  • QWF (Quebec Writer's Federation) Award for Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (2007)
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ISBN: 9781847243935
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $15.51
Authors: Heather O'Neill
Publisher: riverrun
Date of Publication: 2008-07-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult
Goodreads rating: 4.03
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'Lullabies for Little Criminals' is Heather O'Neill's first novel about one girl's struggle for survival on the mean streets of Montreal.Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal's red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby's life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations, new foster homes, new places, new people, all the while longing for stability and a 'normal' life. But Baby has a gift - the ability to find the good in people, a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright, smart, funny and observant about life on the dirty streets of a city and wise enough to realise salvation rests in her own hands.
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  • QWF (Quebec Writer's Federation) Award for Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.