The Supernaturalist - Couverture souple

Colfer, Eoin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141317418 ISBN 13 : 9780141317410

Editeur : Puffin, 2005

Synopsis

Eoin Colfer is the internationally bestselling author of the "Artemis Fowl" series. "The Supernaturalist" is Eoin's vision of a dystopian future where life is short and danger is always near for ages 7-12. Satellite City, Northern Hemisphere, soon: Cosmo Hill is a human guinea pig in an orphanage used by corporations to test new products. Statistics say he has about a year left to live - unless he escapes. But escapes to what? To a world of high-the gang warfare, swat teams of paralegals and a plague of four-fingered parasites who are invisible to everyone except three misfits who call themselves the Supernaturalists. Could Cosmo be one of them? Are they the family he'd always wanted? And if he does become a Supernaturalist, will his life get any longer - or a whole lot shorter? Acclaim for Eoin Colfer: "Reads like The Matrix crossed with Oliver Twist". ("The Times"). "A headlong techno fantasy...Colfer's story rattles along at a tremendous pace". ("Guardian"). "As likely to appeal to grown-ups as children ...a clattering adventure". ("Telegraph"). Eoin Colfer is the bestselling author of the hugely successful "Artemis Fowl" series. He has also written the brilliant "Half-Moon Investigations" (a hit BBC TV series), "The Wish List and Airman". His next series, "W.A.R.P" publishes in 2013.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite ... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability to see these blue creatures too, they enlist him as one of them. Their mission leads Cosmo into a world of high-level corruption, James Bond type technology, thrilling adventure and finally back to a place that Cosmo ever thought he'd have to return...the dreaded Clarissa Frayne.

Biographie de l'auteur

Eoin Colfer followed his parents into teaching and soon began to invent stories for his pupils. His first novel, BENNY AND OMER, was a bestseller in Ireland - like ARTEMIS FOWL, it was written after a day's teaching and after his young son's bedtime. Eoin lives in Wexford, Ireland. ARTEMIS FOWL was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and won the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year Award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Puffin
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141317418
• ISBN 13: 9780141317410
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304