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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... head . Horror seized him . His exploratory touch was being affectionately returned . He was in bed with a stranger . But , after all , both hand and head were his own . Ellis sat up sharply . His stomach heaved , and heaved again , as ...
... head - a head that was set squarely on his shoulders , with his shirt tumbling beneath it . Yet it wasn't - it couldn't be - his head . It was the head of a robot . It was industrial . It was smooth , rounded , symmetrical , and ...
... head , Ellis took it prisoner , focusing on it . This time , Simon's ghost would not set itself free from him . He was commanding it because he might well have a use for it . “ Ursa's frightened be- cause " -he jerked his head sideways ...