Spud: Learning to fly

'Spud: Learning to Fly' transports the reader on an authentic tragicomic journey, deep into the sublime and ridiculous world of being a teenager.
van de Ruit, John
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978-0-14-353952-0
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Title: Spud
Subtitle: Learning to fly
Author: John van de Ruit
Genre: Novel
Publisher: The Penguin Group (South Africa)
Cape Town, South Africa 2009
ISBN 9780143539520/ ISBN 978-0-14-353952-0
Softcover, 13 x 20 cm, 420 pages

Description:

As Spud Milton continues his diabolical stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: when dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. 'I'm practically a man in most areas,' writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, as always in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncomfortable redemption, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with God and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.