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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... silence and repression within families ; social and sexual oppression in the outside world ; inherited madness , particularly the madness of mothers - appear in this first book , the burden of it all is here sustained not by a country ...
... silence and repression within families ; social and sexual oppression in the outside world ; inherited madness , particularly the madness of mothers - appear in this first book , the burden of it all is here sustained not by a country ...
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... silence . She got to the door . If she had had wings , they might have hummed very gently to hold her still as she listened . From beyond the door there came a worn , thin voice speaking in a monotone . Then there was silence . Rosetta ...
... silence . She got to the door . If she had had wings , they might have hummed very gently to hold her still as she listened . From beyond the door there came a worn , thin voice speaking in a monotone . Then there was silence . Rosetta ...
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... silence . Iris , who was drinking coffee , looked from the window . " Looks like all the heat in hell is outside there , " she said . " Look't it . Shimmers like on a lake , don't it ? " Hooker did not speak . He concentrated on the ...
... silence . Iris , who was drinking coffee , looked from the window . " Looks like all the heat in hell is outside there , " she said . " Look't it . Shimmers like on a lake , don't it ? " Hooker did not speak . He concentrated on the ...
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