Forty-Eight Shades of Brown [Import] [Paperback]

Nick Earls (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: WALKER BOOKS (September 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744556406
• ISBN-13: 978-0744556407
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,876,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nick Earls is not technically gifted, so his photo often ends up sideways, typically when he least expects it to. Give him some words to work with, though, and it's a different story.

Reputable reviewers have compared his work with that of Nick Hornby, Raymond Carver, Martin Amis, VS Naipaul, JD Salinger, Woody Allen and Jeffrey Eugenides, which just goes to show that, if you write enough and publish enough, anything can come your way.

Nick Earls writes long, short and medium-sized fiction, so far including twelve novels and numerous shorter works.

He is the winner of a Betty Trask Award (UK) and Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award. Perfect Skin was the only novel to be a finalist in the Australian Comedy Awards in 2003, and was adapted into a feature film in Italy (Solo un Padre, Warner Brothers/Cattleya). 48 Shades of Brown was a Kirkus Reviews (US) book of the year selection, and was adapted into a feature film in Australia (Buena Vista/Prima). Five of his novels have been adapted into stage plays.

He has also written for newspapers, including the New York Times, the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald.

He was born in Northern Ireland, but has spent most of his life in Australia, where many of his books have been bestsellers.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Inaugural view, May 25, 2007

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Julie Nisargand (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forty-Eight Shades of Brown (Paperback)

A 16-year-old becomes the housemate of Venus, the goddess of love, or so he thinks. I came across this book in an interesting way. I have a book out called "The Wednesday Girl". Earlier this year, I received a random e-mail from a gentleman in Australia. He said he was writing a book of the same title, "The Wednesday Girl". He sent me some of his work and also included in the package a book he liked: "48 Shades of Brown". This is a surprisingly deep book about adolescence from across the big pond. Though I found the use of dialogue without quotation marks tiresome, watching Dan move from obsessive-compulsive fear and alienation to (almost) nonchalance and self-confidence is a pretty sight, much like the birds his love interest watches and wants him to name since he's the only person in the house who knows 48 shades of brown. Coming into one's own is something that happens over and over again in a well-lived life. Anyone who is in an evolutionary phase will find something in common with Dan. Recommended.