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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... coming more and more agitated as she did so . He thought about the tottering child he had seen the night before and remembered the way Leona's face had dis- solved with tenderness as she had swept the child up , cuddling her close ...
... coming or going . Could be worth running him to ground and asking a few questions . " Leona was coming back into the dining room , David close behind her . " She's taking time off work , " said David . " No great problem today . We're ...
Margaret Mahy. Phipps , and he said he'd seen Christo's car coming out of Garden Lane at about nine this morning . " " Oh , God ! " exclaimed Ursa . All day she had greeted various crises by looking alert , or looking alarmed , or ...