Lullabies for Little Criminals

Heather O'Neill's new best-selling book, Heiller O'Neill, Angel Daydreaming, and Giller's Saturday evening finalists feature the author's first preface to celebrate the next 10 years anniversary. Age stories that people call "vivid glide portrait".

A 13 - year - old baby was lost in a dirty, hazy moment between strange pulls and temptations for childhood and adult world. Her mother is dead, her father, Jules is not just a child, but he is always looking for his next score. The baby knows that 'chocolate milk' is Joule's heroin slang and she can see more than real articles in her house. But she is very satisfied with a happy and beautiful way of life that can find her way and moves through the threat of the street as if she were placed with great care in dance .

However, there will be much greater risk than survival skills that she soon struggled to survive. The local pimp Alphonse pays attention to her for his new girl; he wants her body and soul - and Johns does nothing, he is greedy for himself. At the same time, gentle and passionate friendship began at school with class boys, and they did not care about her dark argument - even if her father nods it can not be completely ignored did. Jules spent her at the milking station for a while, being betrayed at this moment is to protect the baby from bad damage - but then her reimbursement must be her own invention

When Heather O'Neill was published for the first time ten years ago, his mind was touched and the original original novel gathered the attention of readers altogether. And I led a voice unaffected by her 13 - year - old heroine. Accuracy and Strength Now with a new luxury package it will surely capture that reader for the next decade, Baby picks her way along the edge of the abyss to reach the place of salvation, love To

When she was older a little more, O'Neal looked like a lullaby of a small criminal who was 12 years old, such a baby's narrator on the cliffs between the imaginary world as a child - "plastic" swans Furious on average streets in the city It is true ... Old fans in the corner of the room are dangerous red light districts for adults with beach and criminals everywhere at the age of 15 O'Neill is California I ran into Vermont, although I ran away. A state police officer arrested and came home.

A novel that reads a lullaby of Montreal O'Neill and a girl of "Saturday Night" knows that the wealth of all fairy tales will become the hero. Rosie and Pierrot entrusted with fascinating prose while fighting the enemies of darkness such as poverty, sexual abuse, drug addiction, pornography, while keeping in touch with the newly born poverty. O'Neill 's unique style, which has mastered this dangerous style with skills, is to add to the reader an addictive, incomprehensible, touching reading. There is humor and there is a whimsical comment. Because our hero uses hope and optimism, such as guiding lights to find each other.

Heather O'Neill - His first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals, received the Canadian Reading Competition of Canadian Broadcasting Company in 2007 and received its second work, "Saturday Night". That girl was chosen as the Scotiabank Giller Award of 2014 - to the story of the short movie format of Daydreams of Angels. O'Neill is still a lively history spokesperson inside of Montreal but he finds that there is plenty of room to grow in the series to celebrate the magical and madness of the people who are often being driven into social margins I will.

Heather O'Neill's first novel, The Little Criminal Lullaby, has earned high acclaim worldwide, including the 2007 Canadian Reading Awards and Hugh MacLennan Fiction Awards winners, the Governor's Fiction Award and the Orange Award. Her second novel "Girl on Saturday Night" was chosen as the Scotiabank Gile Award in 2014. She regularly contributes to CBC Books, CBC Radio, National Public Radio, New York Times Magazine, Gazette (Montreal), and Walrus. She was born in Montreal and lives there.