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Zusatztext "It's funny and sad and moving." Informationen zum Autor Daniel Clay lives in Hedge End, England, with his wife, Alison. His short stories have been published in Writers' Forum , The Ashes , and World Wide Writers in the UK. Broken is his first novel. Klappentext Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a normal geeky teen-ager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the side-walk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a sub-urban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty. Zusammenfassung Until that fateful afternoon! Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl! playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buckley had been a normal geeky teenager! hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters! charging furiously down the sidewalk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp! right there in the Buckleys' driveway! and life on Drummond Square was never the same again. Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird ! Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a suburban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.
