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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... eyes . He tried to recall that Sunday morning . He saw the ambulance and the long hall and a lot of men lined up in a row . He could hear the low voice of the reporter , talking about Mr. Oswald and Mr. Kennedy and then Mr. Oswald was ...
... eyes . He tried to recall that Sunday morning . He saw the ambulance and the long hall and a lot of men lined up in a row . He could hear the low voice of the reporter , talking about Mr. Oswald and Mr. Kennedy and then Mr. Oswald was ...
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... eyes from the sun , and look off and down the hill . He began to pace off the distance between the teeing green and the edge of the hill . Hooker saw him counting : “ One ... two three ... four five twenty - two . Twenty - two yards ...
... eyes from the sun , and look off and down the hill . He began to pace off the distance between the teeing green and the edge of the hill . Hooker saw him counting : “ One ... two three ... four five twenty - two . Twenty - two yards ...
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... eyes were closed , but they could hear , and they could think . The baby ... Gilbert ... Clementine ... the birds ... the squir- rel ... mice ... his grandparents ... John Harris ... And all the time , being dead , they thought about ...
... eyes were closed , but they could hear , and they could think . The baby ... Gilbert ... Clementine ... the birds ... the squir- rel ... mice ... his grandparents ... John Harris ... And all the time , being dead , they thought about ...
Table des matières
Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 37 |
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afraid Alberta asked aunt began birds bottle brother cats chair cigarette Clementine color coughed crazy croquet damn dark dead dear door drank Elizabeth Rex eyes face faraway father Fifth Business fingers Frankie Frankie and Johnnie funny Gilbert glass grass hall hands happened Harry Jarman head hear heard Hook Hooker looked Hooker saw Hooker thought Hooker watched inside Iris Janice Parker Jess Jessica Jessie John Harris killed kitchen laughed lawn listen Little Bones living room looked at Hooker lordy Marilyn Bowering Markham College mind mother moved never Nicholas Nick Nick's noise once paused Phoebe Piano Man's Daughter porch quiet remember rose Rosetta seemed sighed silence sitting smell smiled someone sound stairs stared Stone Orchard stood stopped talk tell things Timothy Findley trees turned upstairs voice waited walked What's window Winslow