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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... STREET , announced brass letters on a black background . At the far end of the street he saw the old library he had visited regu- larly as a child , bracing its stone shoulders against a constricting cage of platforms , steps , and ...
... Street . Here ! " she added , though Ellis had al- ready recognized Moncrieff Street , one of the oldest streets in the city . These days it was part of the grid of one - way streets around the city center . Ellis saw a white sheet with ...
... Street . The blank wall of the building ahead had been whitewashed , and on the white background someone had painted three huge portraits with photographic accuracy - three peo- ple Ellis found he knew . One was of Pandora herself , her ...