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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... hand in the back pocket of his jeans and taking out various bills roughly rolled together . In spite of the family crisis , Leona , Jackie , and Ursa all came to a standstill and stared at the money in his hand . Then , for the first ...
... hand wall , numbered mailboxes opened gaping , oblong mouths , while on the right - hand wall , opposite the mailboxes , was a series of small grids , all numbered and named to match the mailboxes . The name KILMER , gold print on an ...
... hand high . " Give me five , man ! " he said , words which Ellis thought belonged exclusively to American sitcoms . Hastily , he raised his own hand to slap Prince's 188 AFTER ...