- Počet strán: 272
- Väzba: tvrdá
- EAN: 9780670919055
- Jazyk: anglický
- ISBN: 9780670919055
- Dátum vydania: 31. augusta 2011
- Vydavateľstvo : Viking
True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
David Almond
This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war at the moment of disaster. Billy Dean is a secret child, growing up in the dark heart of Blinkbonny. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrive
s at night carrying the scent of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings. When his father disappears, Bill
y's mum brings him out into the world, and he learns the dreadful truth of what happened in Blinkbonny on the day he was born. Gradually he finds he has the gift of helping to rebuild what has been broken. But there is one figure who is beyond healin
g, who comes looking for Billy himself and is determined on a kind of reckoning. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale. David Almond's extraordinary first novel for adults is the story of a child, born of sin, who emerges into a post-in
dustrial, almost apocalyptic world where the force of his innocence is tested to the extreme.
s at night carrying the scent of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings. When his father disappears, Bill
y's mum brings him out into the world, and he learns the dreadful truth of what happened in Blinkbonny on the day he was born. Gradually he finds he has the gift of helping to rebuild what has been broken. But there is one figure who is beyond healin
g, who comes looking for Billy himself and is determined on a kind of reckoning. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale. David Almond's extraordinary first novel for adults is the story of a child, born of sin, who emerges into a post-in
dustrial, almost apocalyptic world where the force of his innocence is tested to the extreme.
- Počet strán: 272
- Väzba: tvrdá
- EAN: 9780670919055
- Jazyk: anglický
- ISBN: 9780670919055
- Dátum vydania: 31. augusta 2011
- Vydavateľstvo : Viking
This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war at the moment of disaster. Billy Dean is a secret child, growing up in the dark heart of Blinkbonny. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrive
s at night carrying the scent of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings. When his father disappears, Bill
y's mum brings him out into the world, and he learns the dreadful truth of what happened in Blinkbonny on the day he was born. Gradually he finds he has the gift of helping to rebuild what has been broken. But there is one figure who is beyond healin
g, who comes looking for Billy himself and is determined on a kind of reckoning. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale. David Almond's extraordinary first novel for adults is the story of a child, born of sin, who emerges into a post-in
dustrial, almost apocalyptic world where the force of his innocence is tested to the extreme.
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