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'We were savages, all of us ... Yes, savages; and I was worse than anyone because I stood back and watched.
'Could Ned really have changed the devastating events that occurred in his last years at school? Could he have influenced the gangleader who sadistically menaced their schoolmates? A chilling novel exposing the power of adolescent peer groups in secondary school playgrounds.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication: Dedicated to those for whom school was the killing ground.
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Epigraph: Whom God would destroy he first sends mad. - Homeri Gnomologia : James Duport 1606-1679.
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Schizophrenia. Type of character Secondary. Point of view First person. Note: the narrator is one of the bullies who torments the schizophrenic character, but the latter's diary also serves a narrative function.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 12 no. 1 1997; (p. 38)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 41 no. 3 1997; (p. 34)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel -
'The Killing of Mud-Eye' by Celeste Walters
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 5 no. 2 1997; (p. 19-20)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel -
Framing a Filmic Style
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 188 1997; (p. 53)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel
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Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 41 no. 3 1997; (p. 34)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 12 no. 1 1997; (p. 38)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel -
Framing a Filmic Style
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 188 1997; (p. 53)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel -
'The Killing of Mud-Eye' by Celeste Walters
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 5 no. 2 1997; (p. 19-20)
— Review of The Killing of Mud-Eye 1997 single work novel
Awards
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Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Urban,
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