Thursday's Child |
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Author:
| Hartnett, Sonya |
ISBN: | 978-0-14-029732-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2000 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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Imprint: | Penguin Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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The creature held a great bundle of something tied up in a rag. For a moment we stared, not recognising him, but who else could it have been, who else but wandering Tin. We saw his naked limbs, his discoloured hair, his hooking razor-sharp nails. He raised lashy eyes to us and we saw a face on its way to another world. Da murmured, 'Jesus'.
Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in...
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The creature held a great bundle of something tied up in a rag. For a moment we stared, not recognising him, but who else could it have been, who else but wandering Tin. We saw his naked limbs, his discoloured hair, his hooking razor-sharp nails. He raised lashy eyes to us and we saw a face on its way to another world. Da murmured, 'Jesus'.
Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside.