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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... dark . The windows looked out from two sides of the house . The Harris furniture , their curtains , the whole flavor of the room was completely different from any part of the atmosphere in Hooker's house . Except , perhaps , Rosetta's ...
... dark . The windows looked out from two sides of the house . The Harris furniture , their curtains , the whole flavor of the room was completely different from any part of the atmosphere in Hooker's house . Except , perhaps , Rosetta's ...
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... dark of the trees he sang , with harrowed concentra- tion , about Frankie and her lover : " Oh , bring on your rubber - tired hearses , Oh , bring on your rubber - tired hacks . They're takin ' your man to the graveyard , And they ain't ...
... dark of the trees he sang , with harrowed concentra- tion , about Frankie and her lover : " Oh , bring on your rubber - tired hearses , Oh , bring on your rubber - tired hacks . They're takin ' your man to the graveyard , And they ain't ...
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... dark . He could see , among the faces there , the childhood likenesses of several relatives , all of them Winslows - and pictured again and again was the rounded , worried stare of Aunt Rosetta . She was dressed in the triangular ...
... dark . He could see , among the faces there , the childhood likenesses of several relatives , all of them Winslows - and pictured again and again was the rounded , worried stare of Aunt Rosetta . She was dressed in the triangular ...
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Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 37 |
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