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"Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile prison institutions. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. How guilty? Who was the boy who committed that crime, and is he the same person who can now survive only by hiding his real identity?"
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jonathan Trigell
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Serpent's Tail
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781780332246
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