The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread - Softcover

Robertson, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061452963 ISBN 13: 9780061452963

Verlag: William Morrow & Company, 2008

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Book by Robertson Don

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"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll delight in meeting 9-year-old Morris Bird III.... I loved this book when it was first published in the early '60s, and I am just thrilled that a whole new generation of readers is going get to meet Morris, too."--Nancy Pearl

"'The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread is a brilliant piece of writing--a book to put on the same shelf as Catcher in the Rye and The Outsiders. What was it like to be a kid at mid-century in the midwest? Read this book and see."--Stephen King

"Delightful...universal enough to send a twinge of nostalgia through any ex-boy."--New York Times Book Review

"Spellbinding...superb...the narration is perfect...unforgettable"--Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Engaging...will keep the reader solidly engrossed."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Morris Bird III...is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and that nobody will deny....Mr. Robertson is a tremendously good writer."--The New Yorker

"Morris Bird III...may be the most appealing child since THE CATCHER IN THE RYE."--Nashville Tennessean

"A vividly depicted story...a recreation of a time and place that will stir nostagic smiles...tense narrative...You'll remember Morris Bird III."--Associated Press

"Purely wonderful...Belongs on the same shelf as TOM SAWYER and PERNOD."--Chicago Tribune

The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread is a brilliant piece of writing--a book to put on the same shelf as Catcher in the Rye and The Outsiders. What was it like to be a kid at mid-century in the midwest? Read this book and see. --Stephen King"

Reseña del editor:

Nine-year-old Morris Bird III, with his baby sister and little red wagon in tow, embarks on a remarkable odyssey across Cleveland, in a novel set against the East Ohio Gas explosion of 1944, a disaster that killed some 130 people and leveled a square mile area on Cleveland's east side, in a new edition of a classic novel first published in 1965. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: William Morrow & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061452963
• ISBN 13: 9780061452963
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224