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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... scrutiny , rather as if he were a challenging canvas filled with spaces that the tattooed man longed to color in . " I've thought of getting a tattoo myself , " he heard himself saying cheerfully . " Can do ! " said Phipps . " No 63.
... TATTOOS . Their eyes met . Phipps's gaze felt almost like a physical touch as it ran over Ellis's newly bare head ... tattoo yourself ? Something to set off the new hairstyle ? " " I hadn't thought of it , " said Ellis , remembering ...
... tattoo design cov- ering the chin , and similar tattoos . Beside it there was a series of pictures of a whole regiment of comic - book girls , pouting as they tossed long , blond hair and thrust large , rigid breasts toward the observer ...