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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... fingers , vaguely suggesting that things were just what anyone might ex- pect them to be ... a bit of this , a bit of that , good and bad mixed . Raised unnaturally high on his Rollerblades , Jackie was staring down at Ellis with ...
... fingers . Holding it out stiffly in front of her , she peered into its crimson depths . Her eyes crossed slightly as ... finger of fire is setting it down . " Ursa laughed . " Yeah ! Yeah ! The glass tells all , " she said , nodding and ...
... fingers . " He farted a bit . Did you know that dead people fart ? ” Ellis made an inarticulate sound . " Are you ... fingers , the fingers that had curved so warmly inside his own palm only a short time ago , that had given Simon that ...