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Summer Of The Cicada
Will Napier
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Description for Summer Of The Cicada
Paperback. It's 1987, and Joseph Pullman and his parents have moved to Maritime, Massachusetts. He befriends Dean Gillespie, and the boys are occupied burying animal corpses at the Killing Tree. This summer the cicadas are due to come out of their seventeen-year hibernation, and when a second local boy disappears, the residents confront the Pullmans' house. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 225.
It's 1987 and Joseph Pullman and his parents have just moved to Maritime, Maryland. This is white-picket-fence America, but for fifteen-year-old Joseph the threat of violence at home is as unrelenting as the punishment he receives at school, and his mother is slowly slipping away from reality.
Joseph forms an uneasy friendship with the awkward Dean Gillespie and the boys occupy themselves burying animal corpses at the Killing Tree. This is the summer the cicadas are due to come out of their seventeen-year hibernation and Joseph becomes convinced that their arrival will bring his salvation. Meanwhile, Mother is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099472230
SKU
V9780099472230
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-14
About Will Napier
Will Napier has split his adult life between Scotland and America. He now resides in Atlantic Beach, Florida with his wife and four children. His second novel, Without Warning, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. He is writing his third novel and completing a collection of short fiction.
Reviews for Summer Of The Cicada
Like To Kill a Mockingbird rewritten from the viewpoint of Boo Radley
Scotland on Sunday
Supremely well imagined...Frequently brilliant and consistently unsettling, Summer of the Cicada will remain with you for quite a while
Independent
The opening scene of Summer of the Cicada lodges itself in the mind and stays there until the final page... the ... Read more
Scotland on Sunday
Supremely well imagined...Frequently brilliant and consistently unsettling, Summer of the Cicada will remain with you for quite a while
Independent
The opening scene of Summer of the Cicada lodges itself in the mind and stays there until the final page... the ... Read more