![]() ![]() Spud - Learning to fly transports the reader on an authentic tragicomic journey, deep into the sublime and ridiculous world of being a teenager. 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. Select the department you want to search in. 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 - Learning to Fly eBook : Ruit, John van de: Amazon.ca: Books. 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. The year is 1992 and, as always in South Africa, radical change is in the air. ![]() 'I'm practically a man in most areas, ' writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. ![]() ![]() Boarding schools > South Africa > Fiction. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Subjects Subjects Boarding school students > Diaries > Fiction. 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. Spud - Learning to fly transports the reader on an authentic tragicomic journey, deep into the sublime and ridiculous world of being a teenager. ![]()
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