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To Become a Whale tells the story of 13-year-old Sam Keogh, whose mother has died. Sam has to learn how to live with his silent, hitherto absent father, who decides to make a man out of his son by taking him to work at Tangalooma, then the largest whaling station in the southern hemisphere. What follows is the story of a gentle boy trying to make sense of the terrible reality of whaling and the cruelty and alienation of his new world.
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"To Become a Whale is an extraordinarily vivid and haunting novel that reads like an instant classic of Australian literature. “Hobson takes us to the depths of cruelty to show us life. A boy tries to be a man, a man tries to be a father, and both struggle to navigate what it means to be men. A great study in masculinity.” WILLY VLAUTIN “A powerful tale of fathers and sons and all that can't be spoken between them. Rare, original...it made me feel so much"
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