LULLABIES FOR LITTLE CRIMINALS is the heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel by This American Life contributor Heather ONeill about a young girl fighting to preserve her bruised i… Mehr…
LULLABIES FOR LITTLE CRIMINALS is the heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel by This American Life contributor Heather ONeill about a young girl fighting to preserve her bruised innocence on the feral streets of a big city. Baby all of thirteen years old is lost in the gangly coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father Jules is scarcely more than a child himself and always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that chocolate milk is Jules slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her and moves through the threat of the streets as if shes been choreographed in a dance. Soon though a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse the local pimp has his eye on her for his new girl; and he wants her body and soul -- what the johns dont take he covets for himself. At the same time a tender and naively passionate friendship unfolds with a boy from her class at school who has no notion of the dark claims on her -- which even her father lost on the nod cannot totally ignore. Jules consigns her to a stint in juvie hall and for the moment this perceived betrayal preserves Baby from terrible harm -- but after that her salvation has to be her own invention. eBook<
LULLABIES FOR LITTLE CRIMINALS is the heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel by This American Life contributor Heather ONeill about a young girl fighting to preserve her bruised i… Mehr…
LULLABIES FOR LITTLE CRIMINALS is the heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel by This American Life contributor Heather ONeill about a young girl fighting to preserve her bruised innocence on the feral streets of a big city. Baby all of thirteen years old is lost in the gangly coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father Jules is scarcely more than a child himself and always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that chocolate milk is Jules slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her and moves through the threat of the streets as if shes been choreographed in a dance. Soon though a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse the local pimp has his eye on her for his new girl; and he wants her body and soul -- what the johns dont take he covets for himself. At the same time a tender and naively passionate friendship unfolds with a boy from her class at school who has no notion of the dark claims on her -- which even her father lost on the nod cannot totally ignore. Jules consigns her to a stint in juvie hall and for the moment this perceived betrayal preserves Baby from terrible harm -- but after that her salvation has to be her own invention. eBook<
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Detailangaben zum Buch - Lullabies For Little Criminals: A Novel
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780730456643
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ISBN - alternative Schreibweisen: 978-0-7304-5664-3
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