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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... fingers . It was because , as a stranger , this man had known something about Hooker that Hooker did not know about himself . About himself . Something dangerous . Something that touched Hooker's mind just as his body had been touched ...
... fingers . It was because , as a stranger , this man had known something about Hooker that Hooker did not know about himself . About himself . Something dangerous . Something that touched Hooker's mind just as his body had been touched ...
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... fingers and narrowed his eyes at the length of quiet body on the ground , under its covering . The way he lay was completely careless , and Hooker wondered how it was that somehow Gilbert's shoes were never scuffed or dirty , wher- ever ...
... fingers and narrowed his eyes at the length of quiet body on the ground , under its covering . The way he lay was completely careless , and Hooker wondered how it was that somehow Gilbert's shoes were never scuffed or dirty , wher- ever ...
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... fingers lightly curled - like Gilbert's . And the only place you could see the pain of their being dead was between their eyes . They all looked so deep in thought — even Gilbert , who had never looked like that in life . As far as ...
... fingers lightly curled - like Gilbert's . And the only place you could see the pain of their being dead was between their eyes . They all looked so deep in thought — even Gilbert , who had never looked like that in life . As far as ...
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