- Teenage boys, Death, Crime scenes, Mothers
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death.
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Grave, bleak, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Peter Straub
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Random House, Paragon, Windsor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400060924
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“Nancy Underhill's death had been unexpected, abrupt-a death like a slap in the face.”
Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 March, 1943, the first of three sons of a salesman and a nurse. The salesman wanted him to become an athlete, the nurse thought he would do well as either a doctor or a Lutheran minister, but all he wanted to do was to learn to read. When kindergarten turned out to be a stupefyingly banal disappointment devoted to cutting animal shapes out of heavy colored paper, he took matters into his own hands and taught himself to read by memorizing his comic books and reciting them over and over to other neighborhood children on the front steps until he could recognize the words. Therefore, when he finally got to first grade to find everyone else labor
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