| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02089nam a2200301 a 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
16742865 |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20110520164317.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
110420s2011 nsc 000 1 eng |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2011379473 |
| NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
20109079582 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781897426265 (tr. pbk.) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1897426267 (tr. pbk.) |
| SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(Sirsi) 507224 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
NLC |
| Modifying agency |
YDXCP |
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CDX |
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DLC |
| AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
lccopycat |
| CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA |
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| Classification number |
PS8641 N43 |
| Item number |
S63 2011 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
C813/.6 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Ungar, Michael, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The social worker : |
| Remainder of title |
a novel / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Michael Ungar. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Lawrencetown, N.S. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Pottersfield Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2011. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
287 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Joey is not your typical social worker. He burns down houses to solve bureaucratic deadlocks, steals to get his clients bigger welfare cheques, and lies if it will help prevent his supervisor from intruding in the lives of his young clients. Joey knows all too well what it feels like to be a client. In and out of foster homes, his father dead, his mother an abusive emotional wreck, Joey puts his talents as a juvenile delinquent to good use, even when he¿s locked up in a secure detention centre. Fortunately for Joey, there¿s one youth worker, a former boxer with his own secrets to hide, who inspires Joey to finish his education. Still the delinquent at heart, Joey sets out to get revenge on the system that he believes failed him and his family. Joey¿s plan for revenge may have worked, except buried in old agency files he learns that his family has many secrets yet untold and that the lives of social workers are more complicated than they seem to the children in their care. The Social Worker is a controversial and provocative story of what it means to reach out to the most vulnerable, set amidst the hidden world of those whose motivations to help can be as difficult to understand as the systems for which they work. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Canadian fiction. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social workers |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
F UNG |
| c |
314 |
