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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... cried Jackie . " Are you mad ? My life story's written on this coat . See this stain here ? That's a quarrel with my father , and this smear- " " Okay ! Okay ! " Ellis sighed , waving his hand , palm outward , at Jackie . " I just ...
... Jackie Ursa ignored her sister . " Get out of this car , " she re- peated . " I don't want to breathe the same air as you . 99 " You're going to dump me on the side of the road ? " Jackie cried , sitting bolt upright , and making his ...
... Jackie and Ursa , tumbled and tangled in the back , crying out inco- herently . Reversing , Ellis swung onto Burton ... cried Jackie . " Jesus ! " he exclaimed a moment later as Ellis cornered fiercely , flinging everyone in the car ...