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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Margaret Mahy. So he gave a hasty smile - a nod , a shrug - half offer- ing to move on . But Jackie smiled back at him — a smile bright with unconvincing innocence , revealing a clownish gap between his two front teeth . He grabbed ...
... smile . " Ellis ... lovely to see you , " Meg cried , seeming only slightly surprised that he should be there at all . " Just passing ! " Ellis said , smiling , too - the sort of frank , boyish smile a friend of one's mother could trust ...
... smiling , though by now her smile was shot through with mockery . “ How old am I , for ex- ample ? " " Twenty , " he said confidently . " More or less ! " he added . " More , " she replied , still smiling . " I'm twenty- three . " " It ...