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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... beside the barbecue , and other bottles of wine half empty and already looking abandoned . Jackie , sighing deeply and shaking his head like a man being forced to violate his own better judgment , poured one half - bottle of wine into ...
... beside it , and the wall beside the phone was scribbled and scratched with a swarm of numbers , some of them boxed in so that they could be easily found again . Leaning against a wall beyond the counter was the sort of backpack used for ...
... beside the door . Ellis had seen it earlier in the year in other houses , looking far more natural than it possibly ... besides , he wanted to see Leona just once more . " Starting a fight is all Jackie's good for , " Fox was saying ...