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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... hall chair , and sit there patiently until Iris came to take him away . The noises upstairs were always of a kind - crying ... thumping ... or plain argument . The first rush of feet would inevitably be Rosetta . She'd come out of her ...
... hall chair , and sit there patiently until Iris came to take him away . The noises upstairs were always of a kind - crying ... thumping ... or plain argument . The first rush of feet would inevitably be Rosetta . She'd come out of her ...
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... hall , where he paused at the foot of the stairs . He had not had a drink all afternoon . He had bathed and rested , and now he wore a clean white summer suit and a brand - new tie . He began to go up . They listened . Gilbert knocked ...
... hall , where he paused at the foot of the stairs . He had not had a drink all afternoon . He had bathed and rested , and now he wore a clean white summer suit and a brand - new tie . He began to go up . They listened . Gilbert knocked ...
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... hall . He dwelt , for one enlightened moment , on the possibility of all knowledge . But it was so small a thought in itself that he did not stop to consider it . At the end of the hall , the shower room was empty . Hooker went in and ...
... hall . He dwelt , for one enlightened moment , on the possibility of all knowledge . But it was so small a thought in itself that he did not stop to consider it . At the end of the hall , the shower room was empty . Hooker went in and ...
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Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 37 |
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