Breaktime - Couverture souple

Chambers, Aidan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0370307488 ISBN 13 : 9780370307480

Editeur : Bodley Head Children's Books, 1992

Synopsis

When Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap he triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. Ditto faces a series of charges from Morgan against literature: that all fiction is Done. Finished. Dead; a sham and a pretence. He undertakes faithfully to record a life in the week of Ditto - with all the chaos of reality thrown in - and his literary creation reveals more about himself tha he originally bargained for.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

In Breaktime Morgan thinks literature is crap but Ditto doesn't agree and sets out to prove his cynical friend wrong by writing an account of what happens to him over half term - his father has a heart attack, he gets involved in a drunken brawl with a couple of burglars and has a life-changing encounter with the girl of his dreams.
But is it true or is Ditto just playing a game with words? It's not for Morgan alone to decide . . .

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Biographie de l'auteur

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bodley Head Children's Books
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0370307488
• ISBN 13: 9780370307480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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