Ithaca
McMonagle, Alan2017
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Summer 2009, and eleven-year-old Jason Lowry is preoccupied with thoughts of the Da he has never known. In the meantime, his vodka-swilling, swings-from-the-hip Ma is busy entertaining her latest boyfriend and indulging her fondness for joyriding. Jason escapes to the Swamp: a mysteriously rising pool of fetid water on the outskirts of the town. There, he meets the girl, a being as lost as himself, and with even less regard for reality. Together, they conjure exotic adventures - from ancient Egypt to the search for Ithaca, home of Odysseus. But what begin as innocent flights of fancy soon become forays into hazardous territory; the girl is a dangerous (and very committed) partner in crime.
Main title:
Ithaca / Alan McMonagle.
Author:
McMonagle, Alan, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2017.
Collation:
311 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781509829842 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92G
LC class:
PR6113.C568
Local class:
FIC
Language:
English
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BRN:
1865640
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