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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... assessed . And now he remembered that , years ago , Jackie Cattle , a confused victim for the most part , had also had mo- ments when he could seem quite sinister . So he gave a hasty smile - a nod , 5:20 P.M.-FRIDAY ...
... remembered singing , remembered dancing with Leona , sliding his hand down her back and pulling her against him as they revolved in a tiny space in the crowded kitchen - a space they seemed to have invented for themselves . He remembered ...
... remembered the way the kitchen party had flowed out here when the kitchen suddenly seemed too small to hold them . He remembered Pan- dora with her scarred wrist , and remembered the woman with the purple streak in her hair refusing to ...