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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... Land - of - Smiles and see the painted Phipps looking back at him through a narrow gap in in- tervening walls , might not the real Phipps be able to climb up to some rooftop perch ( up above Legges Nite- Club , say ) and watch all ...
... Smiles to collect his house key and driver's li- cense , carelessly left behind in room Number Nine . He biked across the city on a bicycle that he had not used since passing his driving test . Once at the Land - of- Smiles , he propped ...
... Land - of - Smiles someone said his name in a low , insistent voice . He turned . Fox rose from behind the reception counter like a column of smoke , veiled in her drifting , black shawls and holding her crystal before her . " You are ...