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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... Hair ! Hair ! " she was replying , while Monty admon- ished passers - by on Moncrieff Street , " Never forget the Orono Indians ! " Jackie must have sensed Ellis's astonishment , for he looked back at him , then glanced up at the wall ...
... hair at the top of the bundle . " Give her back ! " yelled Leona . " Give her back , you bastards ! " But the car was already moving . As the young woman ran beside it in a desperate , crablike fashion , Ellis noticed , once more , the ...
... hair smiled at him with such amused complicity , it was as if they had agreed to share some joke at the expense of the world . Ellis wished he could be sure just what the joke might happen to be . There on the wall behind the woman was ...