The Boy on the Bus - Hardcover

Schupack, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743242203 ISBN 13: 9780743242202

Verlag: The Free Press, 2003

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Kathryn Davis Author of "Versailles" Deborah Schupack makes us look through the seductively bright lens of her prose into a world both familiar and strange, that uncanny place at the heart of every family where the deepest bonds get forged. Utterly original and truly mysterious -- this is a spellbinding debut!

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Meg Landry expected it to be a day like any other -- her asthmatic eight-year-old son would step off the bus, home from school. But on this day, the boy on the bus is not Meg's son -- or at least doesn't appear to be. This new boy shares Charlie's copper hair, tea-brown eyes, and slight frame. But there is something profoundly, if indefinably, different about him. He has a finer nose, his skin is shinier, and his face looks more mature, as if he has grown into being Charlie more than the real Charlie ever had. In the wake of Meg's quiet alarm, her far-flung family returns home, and a jangly unease sets in. Neither Charlie's father, Jeff, nor Charlie's rebellious teenage sister, Katie, can help Meg settle the question of the boy. They look to her for certainty -- after all, shouldn't a mother know her own child? In this daring novel, Deborah Schupack dissects a family stretched out along the seams of postmodern small-town life. With the precision of a literary wordsmith, Schupack has crafted an extraordinary tale of a mother's love for her son and a mystery that may ultimately rip them apart. Tense and atmospheric, this debut is a rare combination of intellectual sophistication and page-turning suspense.

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• Verlag: The Free Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743242203
• ISBN 13: 9780743242202
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 215