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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... talking to Christo and drinking champagne . " " Some champagne ! " said Jackie scornfully . " Made right here in New ... talked over him . " And don't think you can joke your way out of this , Jackie . You purposefully set out to ruin ...
... talking , shouting , gesturing . He saw Ursa taking Fox by the shoulders to push her , protesting , to- ward bed . • But by then Ellis himself was talking to Harley , the man gloved with tattoos , who was directing him on to yet another ...
... talking about your haircut , " Ursa said . " That's the best bit of you . Pandora's an artist . She keeps saying so , so it must be true . " " You said you wanted to change your life , " Fox cried . " You kept on saying it ! And Pandora ...