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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... face , at the same time stinging him with gritty dust . Angry voices filled his ears , and a gliding figure ... face - to - face . For the first time that evening Ellis recognized someone , and was sure that he , too ,
... face was tattooed on the chin and cheeks with Maori designs , though the face seemed pakeha ( European ) in every other way . But another face - the one turned toward the tattoos - had its own insignia . It glittered . Ears , nostrils ...
... face - to - face , reached his ears . Christo propped the backpack against an orange pipe that rose vertically behind him . Ellis tried to work out if there was enough space between the platform and the wall for the back- pack ...