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Valiant
Holly Black
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Description for Valiant
Paperback. A rich, harrowing and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship and love. A contemporary retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
When 17-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-coloured powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, Dave, who makes the ... Read more
When 17-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-coloured powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, Dave, who makes the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781416901198
SKU
V9781416901198
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About Holly Black
Holly Black spent her early years in a decaying Victorian mansion where her mother fed her a steady diet of ghost stories and faerie tales. An avid collector of rare folklore volumes, spooky dolls, and crazy hats, she lives in West Long Branch, New Jersey, with her husband, Theo. Together with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, she is the creator of the ... Read more
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