- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (Feb 14 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375869530
- ISBN-13: 978-0375869532
- Product Dimensions: 14.9 x 2.4 x 21.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 381 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #378,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This is a heart-stopping romantic adventure, singing with a love of art and language.' -- Judges' comments, 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards 'Crowley celebrates friendship, curiosity, and intellectual pursuits and writes funny, sophisticated books that zing with wit and energy...' -- Anges Nieuwenhuizen, Magpies Volume Twenty-five 'Graffiti Moon is so beautifully crafted that the shift between points of view is virtually seamless. Poet's free verse contributions are rather like the tense pauses in great music -- a place for readers to hold their breath and wait, skin tingling with anticipation, for the change in pace, pitch and rhythm.' -- NSW Association for Gifted and Talented Children
Book Description
Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she's going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He's out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds and blue sky on the night—and Lucy knows a guy who paints like Shadow is someone she could fall for. Really fall for. Instead, Lucy's stuck at a party with Ed, the guy she's managed to avoid since the most awkward date of her life. But when Ed tells her he knows where to find Shadow, they're suddenly on an all-night search around the city. And what Lucy can't see is the one thing that's right before her eyes.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (52 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Deeply satisfying, Jun 17 2011
By Eglantine - Published on Amazon.com
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Dear Me of Two Weeks Ago,Reasons why you will like this book:
Everything happens in the space of one night. Remember when nights had territories? When darkness seethed with possibility? When you could fall in love in the course of a single night and change your life as well? Though it will take you a few days to read it, as long as your characters dwell in that single night, so will a part of you, from first page till last.
In the world of this book art matters, love matters, poetry matters, and it reminds you of being sixteen when you did think about how art collided with life, when you knew how to look at a wall.
This book has its own beating heart. The characters are at least as real as you are. Probably a little realler if truth be told.
I really think you ought to read this book.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Such a lovely book - even if you're not in the target market!, Sep 4 2011
By kimberly - Published on Amazon.com
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I purchased this book after seeing the author speak at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Being almost 40, I wondered if I would enjoy it, but her expressed love of words made me curious. I'm SO glad I did - I completely LOVED this beautifully written book. The story is not just one for young people - the themes I found of hiding one's true self, dreams, the need to have someone to believe in you, love of art - are universal. So I'd recommend it for any age if you have a love of words, but also love a great story. I finished it in a day and am now feeling sorry to have rushed it. It's one I'll be re-reading and recommending.
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Artistry, loveliness and an enveloping dive into shifting consciousness, Mar 15 2012
By Jason Northcott - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Graffiti Moon (Hardcover)
"I think of wall after wall after wall. Green mazes wandering and two people wandering through them. Doorways that lead somewhere good. Skies the exact kind of blue I've been looking for." -- Ed (Graffiti Moon)In Graffiti Moon, by Cath Crowley, the bedraggled streets of Melbourne radiate with such beauty and artistry, through the ambrosial eyes and effervescent nature of the protagonists, Ed and Lucy, that the reader is left with no choice but to submit into complete and utter adoration. In a sweetly endearing and relentlessly engaging tale which oozes with romanticism (and a touch of grounding naturalism), Ms. Crowley expertly weaves a thread of shifting paradigms that perfectly unsettles the reader at all of the right times while still maintaining an ever-welcoming sense of loveliness and profound rapture.
Ultimately, just as Ed and Lucy are the type of characters that make us want to hang out with them as much as we would with our best of friends, Graffiti Moon is likely to find its way to the top shelf of books in your library reserved only for your favorites.
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