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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... watched him gasping and choking , strug- gling and sinking , pushing him under again and again with their bare feet ... Watching Jackie dance around Christo , as he himself had never been able to do , filled him with hot pleasure . " I ...
Margaret Mahy. who had been merely relaxing and watching television . " John Marlin , " said Ellis , snatching a name out of the past . Remembering the voice that had once gone with that name , he deepened his own slightly , careful not ...
... watched him get one knee onto the edge of the roof , watched him push forward yet again , and then lie extended , panting as he sprawled on the tiles . Secretly , Ellis knew he could have used his impe- tus to scrabble farther up the ...