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The Amateur
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781503276598
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 7 2015
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Lily's an outsider who'll do anything to get in... Francis Steerlock, a middle-aged drifter, hides a hopeless obsession... Sonia, a young hitch-hiker, challenges Francis in a dicey game of hide-and-seek... the elderly Mrs. Stoppit develops an ominous condition... Queenie's preadolescent fascination with the elusive Sonia leads her-and her little brother Tick-across the safe borders of childhood.
Startling, luminous, and cut with metaphysical wit, The Amateur follows these best-intended strangers on an unexpected route to the worst that can happen-and reckons the cost, for better and worse, of being human at all.
Fluh-dump, goes the heart. Fluh-dump. It's not as simple as it looks.
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