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We Used to Be Kings - Couverture rigide

Foster, Stewart

 
9780224098038: We Used to Be Kings
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0224098039 ISBN 13 : 9780224098038
Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2014

Synopsis

Six years ago Tom’s brother died. The next day he came back.

It’s Tom and Jack’s 18th birthday, but it isn’t a cause for celebration. For the past three years they’ve been in a care home for troubled children, a place where Dr Smith tries to silence the voice of Jack in Tom’s head. But Tom doesn’t want that. He’s already lost his brother once, he’s not going to lose him again.

And so, when they go in front of the review board, they will have to pretend Jack has gone so they won’t be sent to the Young Men’s Institution or they’ll have to escape. Because one way or another they’ve got to get out of this place. They’ve got to be free, they’ve got to remember everything that happened to them, to their mum, and to their dad.They have to find their dad, whom they haven’t seen since he left on a space mission to the moon when they were young.

We Used To Be Kings is the story of a young boy’s descent into madness following the loss of everything he knows. Set in the 1970s, it is reminiscent of unusually hot summers, pictures of Russians in space and war on our doorstep. It’s an audacious, at times hilarious story that is ultimately heartbreaking and unforgettable.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stewart Foster lives in Wiltshire and is married with two children. We Used to Be Kings is his first novel.

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Éditeur
Jonathan Cape
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0224098039
ISBN 13 
9780224098038
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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