The Last of the Crazy PeoplePenguin Canada, 1 juil. 2008 - 224 pages While other 11-year-old boys are preoccupied with things like hockey, television and having fun, Hooker broods about his dysfunctional home-life. With a mother who refuses to leave her room, a brother in an alcoholic haze and a father who's unable to hold things together, Hooker's world is one of bewilderment and conflict. Feeling alone and unhappy, the young boy seeks to put an end to all of the confusion in The Last of the Crazy People, Timothy Findley's astonishing debut novel. |
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... cats . It's like patronizing Murder Incorporated or keeping a bunch of killers around here for damned amusement's sake . Why don't they ever kill each other ? That's what I'd like to know . " Now Hooker could hear Gilbert and Iris in ...
... cats . It's like patronizing Murder Incorporated or keeping a bunch of killers around here for damned amusement's sake . Why don't they ever kill each other ? That's what I'd like to know . " Now Hooker could hear Gilbert and Iris in ...
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... cats , once , too . White ones , black Everybody had kids and cats . By the zillion . Kids ones , gray " and cats . " ... She placed the yellowed crinkles of her hands on the table top and considered the state of her ragged nails . She ...
... cats , once , too . White ones , black Everybody had kids and cats . By the zillion . Kids ones , gray " and cats . " ... She placed the yellowed crinkles of her hands on the table top and considered the state of her ragged nails . She ...
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... cats and them birds . ” She reneged on that subject and returned to her own cats . " Most kids have cats , I guess — or a dog or something . There is always something when you're young . I guess it's true I had maybe eighteen cats in ...
... cats and them birds . ” She reneged on that subject and returned to her own cats . " Most kids have cats , I guess — or a dog or something . There is always something when you're young . I guess it's true I had maybe eighteen cats in ...
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Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 37 |
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