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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... thing , dangerous to live with all your life . An illness of the heart ... " " It is habit ! " said Rosetta . " Of the heart ... things together , and you've got someone who can't make his own way . ” " He's a pathological ... ” " What ...
... thing , dangerous to live with all your life . An illness of the heart ... " " It is habit ! " said Rosetta . " Of the heart ... things together , and you've got someone who can't make his own way . ” " He's a pathological ... ” " What ...
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... things that are dead . " She breathed . " In that Rosetta's office there's nothin ' but pictures of old dead people — an ' all Gilbert talks about is things that was the way they used to be . Always what's old . Always tryin ' to make ...
... things that are dead . " She breathed . " In that Rosetta's office there's nothin ' but pictures of old dead people — an ' all Gilbert talks about is things that was the way they used to be . Always what's old . Always tryin ' to make ...
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... things but from the other things — the weak things , like that man touching you or like me not having a job and drinking . I want to be stopped . I want to be . Except- ” He lighted a cigarette . " It's too late , of course because ...
... things but from the other things — the weak things , like that man touching you or like me not having a job and drinking . I want to be stopped . I want to be . Except- ” He lighted a cigarette . " It's too late , of course because ...
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