- Hit-and-run drivers, Hit-and-run drivers in fiction, Children's stories, Fiction
A young boy's joy ride on a "borrowed" motorcycle suddenly turns into a desparate evasion of the police.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Nigel Hinton
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Penguin, Oxford University Press, Puffin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140311693
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