![]() No sooner is he in all the papers, being hailed as a hero, than he receives a playing card in the post. His alcoholic father died a year ago, and now he’s being constantly harangued on the phone by his potty-mouthed mother, who favours his more successful siblings over him.īut in the book’s opening pages, Ed accidentally foils a bank robbery and his life takes a different tack. He is in love with his best friend, Audrey, but doesn’t feel confident enough to tell her of his true feelings. He drives a taxi for a living and has a small circle of friends with whom he plays cards and drinks beer. ![]() ![]() The story is told in first person by 19-year-old Ed Kennedy, who lives with a big smelly brute of a dog in a rundown Sydney suburb. I Am The Messenger is a young adult novel written by Markus Zusak, the Australian author who went on to achieve commercial success and international acclaim with his next book, The Book Thief. ![]()
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