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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... sound seemed to be coming at him from every direction at once . Jackie , helping himself from the coffee machine , turned and pointed down- ward , and so at last Ellis found the phone , which was squatting on the floor almost between ...
... sound of Leona's rattling and thumping filled the yard . Although the door remained shut , Ellis some- how knew the house was not empty . He knew that ur- gent , furtive movement was taking place beyond the red door , could somehow hear ...
... sound now had the power to chill him . It rang twice , and then stopped , so Ellis knew that it had been answered ... sound of a voice crackling and hissing at the other end of the line . And then , faint and far away on the same line ...