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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... light , Ellis saw the city center glowing like a far - off stage . But , although the sunlight was finding its way so confidently between hotels and banks , shops and of- fices , the city was threatened by a storm . To the north ...
... light that shifted uneasily in the curving drive was a girl he knew he was seeing for the first time in his life . All the same , it now seemed to Ellis that for months - maybe even years - he had been expecting to see this very girl ...
... light be- side her bowl of half - eaten cereal . Then Ursa looked up , and she , too , studied him , staring through her dark- rimmed glasses , and looking unexpectedly alert for someone contemplating Saturday morning breakfast after a ...