Draft:Boy Swallows Universe (novel)

Boy Swallows Universe
Author	Trent Dalton
Language	English
Genre	Bildungsroman, literary fiction, Contemporary fantasy, Urban fiction
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	18 March 2019
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (paperback), Audiobook
Pages	528 (paperpack)
ISBN	9781460757765 (paperback)

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Boy Swallows Universe is the debut novel by Australian author Trent Dalton. The novel has won a number of awards and been adapted as a play and performed by the Queensland Theatre in 2021.^[1] Netflix has subsequently turned it into a television series: Boy Swallows Universe.

Characters

Eli Bell: The narrator and main protagonist
August Bell: Eli's older brother
Frankie: Eli and August's mother
Lyle: Frankie's boyfriend
Eli's father
Caitlyn Spies: a journalist and Eli's boyhood crush
Tytus Broz: the Lord of Limbs
Iwan Krol: Tytus' henchman

Reviews

Michael Cart in The Booklist wrote: "Teens who enjoy literary fiction will be enchanted by this remarkably readable and memorable novel."^[2]
Ellen Morton in The Washington Post: ""Boy Swallows Universe" hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak." ^[3]
Amelia Lester in New York times: "One can’t help quibbling that the story seems designed with an eye to its own presumed dramatic adaptation. (Dalton’s résumé includes a few screenplays.) The violence is occasionally too much. Toward the end, a plot point involving severed limbs is downright fanciful. Such florid unpleasantries feel all the more gratuitous because the most compelling aspects of “Boy Swallows Universe” come from real life." ^[4]

Awards and nominations

2019 ABIA Book of the Year Award, Winner
2019 Indie Book Award, Winner
2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner
2019 People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner
2019 MUD Literary Prize, Winner
2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Winner
2019 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Winner
2019 ABIA Audiobook of the Year, Winner
2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Longlisted
2019 Colin Roderick Award, Shortlisted

References

^ "Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe". Brisbane Festival. Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
^ Cart, Michael (Feb 1, 2019). "Boy Swallows Universe". The Booklist. 115 (11): 27–28.
^ Morton, Ellen (Apr 3, 2019). "'Boy Swallows Universe' is a high-stakes coming-of-age story: In Australian writer Trent Dalton's buzzy debut, a lovable, imaginative boy is forced to grow up". The Washington Post.
^ Lester, Amelia (May 7, 2019). "'Boy Swallows Universe' Follows a Gritty Coming-of-Age in 1980s Australia: Fiction". New York Times (Online).

External links

https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460757765/boy-swallows-universe/

Category:Novels set in Brisbane Brisbane Category:Australian literature Category:Australian books Category:Books by Trent Dalton Category:Australian young adult novels

[1] "Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe". Brisbane Festival. Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council. Retrieved January 1, 2022.

[2] Cart, Michael (Feb 1, 2019). "Boy Swallows Universe". The Booklist. 115 (11): 27–28.

[3] Morton, Ellen (Apr 3, 2019). "'Boy Swallows Universe' is a high-stakes coming-of-age story: In Australian writer Trent Dalton's buzzy debut, a lovable, imaginative boy is forced to grow up". The Washington Post.

[4] Lester, Amelia (May 7, 2019). "'Boy Swallows Universe' Follows a Gritty Coming-of-Age in 1980s Australia: Fiction". New York Times (Online).

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