- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mothers and sons
Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond is in for the ride of his life when he's swept downstream and underground aboard a crumbling raft of Styrofoam. Washing up on a dark subterranean "beach," his only companions are an impulsive dog named Argus and a corpse, from which he takes a flashlight and an all-too-limited supply of batteries.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nathan D. Wilson
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Yearling, Random House Children's Books, Random House Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375938733
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