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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... lived there for years and had nowhere else to go . The windows and windowsills and the edges of the kitchen shelves looked grubby , not with any really noticeable dirt , but because a particu- lar sort of carelessness had laid itself ...
... lived here since the year dot . And the Hammonds have been here a good while as well . " " Phipps thinks he's king of the castle , " said the woman . " But what I can't work out is why the Ham- monds stay on . I wouldn't , not after ...
... lived a whole life of love , adventure , and little dances with death - and all within twenty - four hours . As he left the Land - of - Smiles someone said his name in a low , insistent voice . He turned . Fox rose from behind the ...