24 HoursMargaret K. McElderry Books, 2000 - 200 pagina's It is seventeen-year-old Ellis's first night at home after graduating from prep school. By chance he bumps into Jackie Cattle, whom he remembers from grade school. Jackie is a couple of years older than Ellis, a drifter, disreputable, yet with an odd charm and a disarming wit. For the next twenty-four hours, Ellis enters an extraordinary world on the fringe of society that he never knew existed. Jackie introduces him to life at the Land-of-Smiles, a dilapidated motel where nightly a strange collection of local characters gather to drink and talk. Two attractive sisters, Ursa and Leona, the elder studying to be a lawyer, live there. Leona loves and takes care of a baby whose mother stops in only once in a while. Then the baby disappears, and Ellis is thrust into a wild, sometimes almost violent search for the child. This is a stunning novel that grips the reader as it sweeps to its conclusion. Rich characterization, breathtaking action, and an ultimately heartwarming solution distinguish this latest triumph of Margaret Mahy. |
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... Ellis moved across the upper lawn be- tween groups of chattering guests ... asked , leaning back from Jackie and studying him with exaggerated ... Ellis , " he cried in the voice of a surrogate father keen to show how understanding he ...
... asked Ellis . " She'll tell you where , ” said Jackie . “ She's good at laying down the law . " A back door slammed . Then Ursa opened her door again . Ellis thought that perhaps she had re- lented . But she was only throwing the ...
... asked him , but it was not so much the words as the voice in which they had been spoken that now troubled Ellis . For if he could sit there in front of the Land - of - Smiles and see the painted Phipps looking back at him through a ...