Labour Day

Maynard, Joyce

ISBN 10: 0061920789 ISBN 13: 9780061920783

Verlag: William Morrow, 2009

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Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. From the perfect pitch of a teenaged boy narrator to the eloquent message of how loneliness can bind people together, this is simply a novel you cannot miss. --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Handle With Care

A sometimes painful tale, but captivating and surprisingly moving. --Publishers Weekly

Maynard s inventive coming-of-age tale indelibly captures the anxiety and confusion inherent in adolescence, while the addition of a menacing element of suspense makes this emotionally fraught journey that much more harrowing. --Booklist

Reseña del editor:

The dog days of August . . . All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did.

Then, just as the Labour Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry s mother, Adele, on one of her rare forays out of the house and into the wider world has taken him to buy pants for school, a bleeding man approaches Henry and asks for help.

Frank is a man with a secret, and a man on the run. Adele is a wounded soul whose dreams of family life and romantic dancing died years ago, even before her husband left her and their son. And Henry is a loser and a loner, a boy on the cusp of manhood who, over the next five days, will learn some of life s most valuable lessons: how to throw a baseball, the secret to perfect peach pie, and the importance of placing others--especially those you love--above yourself.

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• Verlag: William Morrow
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061920789
• ISBN 13: 9780061920783
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208