- Fantasy, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction
After the man in the closed, empty shop gives James a box of nothing, he finds himself in the Dump, a bizarre world filled with strangely altered rubbish and large intelligent rats.
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Classical in form, contemporary, plot-driven and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Dickinson
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press, Methuen Children's, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Italian, und, English
- ISBN
- 9781504014977
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