The Forest in the Hallway - Hardcover

Smith, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618688471 ISBN 13: 9780618688470

Verlag: Clarion Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The afternoon of the day before her fourteenth birthday, Beatriz comes home from school to find her parents missing without a trace. After a brief, futile search, she is shipped off from her home in Des Moines to her uncle’s New York apartment, where she finds a portal to a peculiar magical land, and the starting point of an even more peculiar journey. Beatriz forms unlikely friendships with Death, a family of people with wings, assorted innkeepers, and two nameless orphans. After hair-raising encounters with a malevolent witch and her unpleasant assistants, Beatriz discovers that she has been much closer to home—and to her parents—than she initially believed.
With writing rich in wordplay, literary allusions, and deadpan humor, Gordon Smith’s imaginative novel introduces an original fantasy world and its resourceful visitor. Perfect for readers who love stranger-in-a-strange-land classics like The Phantom Tollbooth and Alice in Wonderland, this enchanting story is certain to earn a new place of favor on their shelves.

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Gordon Smith lives in San Francisco. THE FOREST IN THE HALLWAY, his first book, began as a story told to his daughter, now in college, during their daily commute to her middle school.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Clarion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0618688471
• ISBN 13: 9780618688470
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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