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On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she said.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Belinda Bauer
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Bantam Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802129604
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First sentence
“It was so hot in the car that the seats smelled as though they were melting.”
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