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Publisher Unknown (1969)
Description
The author of The Secret Life of Houses returns with a contemporary novel which creates an unsparing portrayal of a child whose needs and intelligence go far beyond the average.
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LibraryThing member dbsovereign
Poetic and haunting, but ultimately not a book I'd recommend to anyone - I only give it three stars because it is well written. However, I could not imagine an eight year old kid who was as intelligent as our narrator actually acting out his Oedipal urges in this way and his 12 year old friend who
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is a Marxist is just a bit over the top for me. If the kid had anything else besides a good vocabulary going for him, perhaps I would have had more empathy for him, but as a narrator he was totally unlikable. Show Less
LibraryThing member stravinsky
these kids scare me.
Original publication date
1989