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Spider Truces

By Tom Connolly

Spider Truces

By Tom Connolly

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Ellis is obsessed by the spiders that inhabit the crumbling house where he lives with his dad, his older sister and Great-aunt Mafi - and also by a need to find out more about his mother, whose death overshadows the family's otherwise happy existence. He is a sensitive soul; awkward and out of place most of the time but funny, too, and with an embarrassing habit of speaking his thoughts aloud, whatever the company. From early attempts at relationships, to unskilled jobs, flatshares and drug-addled nights on the beach, Ellis muddles his way towards adulthood. What endures is the strength of his bond with his dad, Denny, and his affectionate relationship with his intrepid sister, who turns up whenever he needs her - a new boyfriend in tow every time. The family banter is Ellis's lifeline and a counterpoint to the constant heartache of his desire to know something - anything - about his mother. Meanwhile, Denny, an ex-Merchant Navy man, bottles up his grief at the loss of his wife, refusing to talk about her. Against the vividly described background of 1980s rural Kent, this moving portrait of a father-son relationship shifts effortlessly between evoking the terrors and joys of adolescence and the complicated pleasure and pain of being an adult.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2006-04-07
Publication Date:
2010-04-08
Publisher:
Myriad Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0956251528
ISBN13:
9780956251527
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
400 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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