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Sleeping Dogs (novel)
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Sleeping Dogs is a 1995 young adult
novel
by Australian author, Sonya Hartnett
. The novel centers on the depressed Willow family, isolated, dysfunctional and violent. Bow Fox, an artist
, arrives to stay at the family's caravan park, precipitating a dark downward spiral.
Young adult literature
Young-adult fiction or young adult literature , also juvenile fiction, is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The Young Adult Library Services of the American Library Association defines a young adult as "someone between the...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Australian author, Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...
. The novel centers on the depressed Willow family, isolated, dysfunctional and violent. Bow Fox, an artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, arrives to stay at the family's caravan park, precipitating a dark downward spiral.