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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... stood by the cedar hedge and looked across the lawn . How cool it was . And then he heard the hose . He could not walk down the driveway because the gravel would make noises and give him away . And so he stepped onto the grass . The ...
... stood by the cedar hedge and looked across the lawn . How cool it was . And then he heard the hose . He could not walk down the driveway because the gravel would make noises and give him away . And so he stepped onto the grass . The ...
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... stoOD ABOUT in groups , holding useless lengths of hose , and one of them with an extinguisher was putting out one of the small fires in the undergrowth . The other people stood and stared . Hooker looked at the curl of his brother's ...
... stoOD ABOUT in groups , holding useless lengths of hose , and one of them with an extinguisher was putting out one of the small fires in the undergrowth . The other people stood and stared . Hooker looked at the curl of his brother's ...
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... stood in front of , or passed by , the old houses — including , Hooker saw , the Harrises ' house - which were partly hidden by old trees and set apart by fences and hedges or by the remarkable length of their lawns , back from the ...
... stood in front of , or passed by , the old houses — including , Hooker saw , the Harrises ' house - which were partly hidden by old trees and set apart by fences and hedges or by the remarkable length of their lawns , back from the ...
Table des matières
Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 37 |
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