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Living with her heroin addict father, Jules, thirteen-year-old Baby catches the eye of the charismatic Alphonse, who possesses a string of girls who do his bidding, and is sent to reform school, but when she ultimately gains her freedom, she begins to discover that only she possesses the power to save herself. A first novel. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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“A vivid portrait of life on skid row.” (People)
“A nuanced, endearing coming-of-age novel you won’t want to miss.” (Quill & Quire (Canada))
“Vivid and poignant.... A deeply moving and troubling novel.” (Independent (London))
“A beautiful book, all the more remarkable because its harrowing tale is (virtuosically) told without a trace of self-pity or bathos. There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph.” (David Rakoff, author of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish)
“O’Neill is a tragicomedienne par excellence.... You will not want to miss this tender depiction of some very mean streets.” (Montreal Review of Books)
“A poignant tale.... O’Neill brings the setting to life.” (OK!, five stars)
“O’Neill somehow infuses her troubling story with a kind of heartbreaking innocence.... She is a wonderful stylist and the voice she has created for Baby is original and altogether captivating.” (Booklist)
“A winsome debut novel.” (Kirkus)
“Baby’s precocious introspection feels pitch perfect.... Tear-jerkingly effective.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Dreamy prose.... Baby’s unique voice and the glimmer of hope provided by her intelligence and imaginative spirit live on in the mind long after you have closed the book.” (Waterstones Books Quarterly (London))
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“A nuanced, endearing coming-of-age novel you won’t want to miss.” (Quill & Quire (Canada))
“Vivid and poignant.... A deeply moving and troubling novel.” (Independent (London))
“A beautiful book, all the more remarkable because its harrowing tale is (virtuosically) told without a trace of self-pity or bathos. There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph.” (David Rakoff, author of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish)
“O’Neill is a tragicomedienne par excellence.... You will not want to miss this tender depiction of some very mean streets.” (Montreal Review of Books)
“A poignant tale.... O’Neill brings the setting to life.” (OK!, five stars)
“O’Neill somehow infuses her troubling story with a kind of heartbreaking innocence.... She is a wonderful stylist and the voice she has created for Baby is original and altogether captivating.” (Booklist)
“A winsome debut novel.” (Kirkus)
“Baby’s precocious introspection feels pitch perfect.... Tear-jerkingly effective.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Dreamy prose.... Baby’s unique voice and the glimmer of hope provided by her intelligence and imaginative spirit live on in the mind long after you have closed the book.” (Waterstones Books Quarterly (London))
Heather O’Neill is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Lullabies for Little Criminals, her debut novel, was published in 2006 to international critical acclaim and won CBC Canada Reads. It was short-listed for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has since published the novel The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and the short story collection Daydreams of Angels, which were finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in consecutive years. The collection was also short-listed for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives there today with her daughter.
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. Heather ONeills critically acclaimed debut novel, with a new introduction from the author to celebrate its ten-year anniversaryBaby, 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 is 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 thing. 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 what the johns dont take he covets for himself. If Baby cannot learn to become her own salvation, his dark world threatens to claim her, body and soul.Channeling the artlessly affecting voice of her thirteen-year-old heroine with extraordinary accuracy and power, Heather ONeills debut novel blew readers away when it was first published ten years ago. Now its sure to capture its next decade of readers as Baby picks her pathway along the edge of the abyss to arrive at a place of redemption, and of love.Featuring a new introduction from the authorCBC Canada reads winner, Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction winner, Orange Prize for Fiction finalist, Governor Generals Literary Award finalist, International Impac Dublin Literary Award finalistPraise for Lullabies for Little CriminalsA vivid portrait of life on skid row.-PeopleA nuanced, endearing coming-of-age novel you wont want to miss.-Quill And QuireVivid and poignant. . . . A deeply moving and troubling novel.-The Independent (London)ONeill is a tragicomedienne par excellence. . . . You will not want to miss this tender depiction of some very mean streets.-Montreal Review of Books. Codice articolo DADAX0060875070
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable debut of a stunning literary talent Heather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life on the streets—and the strength, wits, and luck necessary for survival. At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit than he does of his daughter. Baby's gift is a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her blossoming beauty has captured the attention of a charismatic and dangerous local pimp who runs an army of sad, slavishly devoted girls—a volatile situation even the normally oblivious Jules cannot ignore. And when an escape disguised as betrayal threatens to crush Baby's spirit, she will ultimately realize that the power of salvation rests in her hands alone. Written with powerful understatement and suffused with the painful rapture of growing up, this harrowing debut novel from a contributor to the influential radio program "This American Life" is the story of a 13-year-old girl who must face choices she is not ready to make. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780060875077
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