![]() At the other end of a trek through the sleeping town lies a secret that is adult and painful. Charlie is lured by the promise of adventure when the town troublemaker, Jasper Jones, comes to his window one night and asks for help. It is 1965, and the insularity of rural Western Australia is an oddly neat setting for a story that aligns itself with an American literary tradition. clench themselves shut and choose not to know" about the outside world. To 13-year-old Charlie Bucktin, the mining town of Corrigan is populated by barnacles: "hard shells that. ![]() Wariness seems in order when Craig Silvey's publisher suggests that Jasper Jones, Silvey's second novel, is an Australian To Kill a Mockingbird. Publisher hyperbole can be off-putting - rarely more so than when it takes the overblown-comparison route. ![]()
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