- Fiction, Missing children, Ficción, Niños desaparecidos
"Watch your brother," says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son, Vincent. She's checking in at her high school reunion in Chicago. Even with a hotel clerk who is, in Beth's estimation, slower than weight loss, it's not more than five minutes before she turns again and asks, "Where's Ben?"
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 441
- Publisher
- Atlántida, Bt Bound, Signet
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Spanish, English, und
- ISBN
- 9780613371841
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“"I only like the baby," Beth told her husband, as they stacked plastic bags and diaper bags, and duffel bags and camera bags, and Beth's big old Bacfold reflector-all in a pile in the hall.”
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