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It began with a lorry load of fish. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
It began with a lorry load of fish. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While some of his later books might arguably be described as courting controversy, this is a brutally honest and gritty story set in a skewed urban landscape that is similar and yet somehow worlds apart from those we know. Burgess takes the worst elements of the 21st century and magnifies them into a desolate universe of greed and corruption. Against this backdrop we meet Fly Pie and his sister Jane, children struggling to 'make good' and escape the trap of their lives to achieve their modest dreams.
The discovery of a seventeen-million-pound baby on the rubbish tip they call home throws in their paths an opportunity to gain everything they have ever hoped for, if only they can seize it. Along with companion Sham, another Rubbish Kid, they struggle against the hands that threaten to crush yet another dream, and risk everything they have to hold it together. They try desperately to believe, in the midst of betrayal and the loss of their remaining innocence, that if they play by the rules and try to retain their honesty and integrity, their good fortune will come along.
This is a stunning, intense, uncompromising and unpatronising novel that does not deserve the connotations of Teenage Fiction. Burgess minces no words, softens no blows, invents no happy endings. Yet within a story of loss and tragedy, Burgess weaves a vein of strangely uplifting goodness in unexpected beauties, love, warmth, humour, resilience and courage. A read that will grip you from beginning to end.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was asked to read the book before I joined my highschool. Once I started the book I carried straight on through the night. The story is about a boy and girl who face a perilous journey to return a baby to it's family. However you find the book is more then just that it's all about the realities of a working life. The respect that people aught to have and don't and how there are sects in the worlds today. You must read the book!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I didn't put this book down
28 May 2000
Format:Library Binding
When I bought this book I didn't expect it to be as good as it was. It was a quick and easy read but it was very enjoyable. The whole way through the book you are waitng to find out what the three kids are going to do next. I found the end a bit strange and you think "Why did that happen?" and in some parts you end up hating the characters, but it was extremely good on the whole.
Depressing, but good
19 Jun 2003
Format:Library Binding
I've owned this book for over 6 years before I read it. I'm 20 now, and found the book in my old bedroom. I decided to read it cause I had nothing else, and finished it in the same night. It was amazingly depressing and tragic. I hated most the characters through-out the book. For being uncaring, decefitful, or too caring and stupid. But it was an engaging book. Even for my age. I almost think it might be too violent and depressing for young adults though. But, if you can handle that sort of thing, I'd recommend it. It's a fast and easy read too.
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