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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... Shelley ? " she asked . Ellis , still unable to re- member who Shelley might be , shook his head , then felt as if he'd been stabbed from left temple to right . " Just remind me where I am , " he begged her as the dagger twisted behind ...
... Shelley ! " she called as she re- treated . " Shelley ! Come on ! No hiding ! " Ellis wished he could watch her properly ... but he was somehow set at a different angle to the world through which Leona was moving so confidently . So he ...
... Shelley was born three rooms farther on from where you were last night . But Mystique took off almost at once , and by now Shelley counts as ours . Leona's crazy about her . We all are . " " Get the cops , " begged Fox . " Tell them to ...