Boy In The Burning House - Brossura

Wynne-Jones, Tim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374408874 ISBN 13: 9780374408879

Casa editrice: Fsg Bfyr, 2003

Riassunto

Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Tim Wynne-Jones's critically acclaimed fiction includes Some of the Kinder Planets, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction. He lives in Perth, Ontario.

Product Description:

An Edgar Award Winner Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell. He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear. What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house?

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• Editore: Fsg Bfyr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374408874
• ISBN 13: 9780374408879
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224