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The Shadow Year: A Novel Reprint edition
Jeffrey Ford
The Shadow Year: A Novel Reprint edition
Jeffrey Ford
On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.
There is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly cor-respond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.
304 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 17, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780061231537 |
Publishers | HarperCollins |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 203 × 136 × 26 mm · 226 g |
Language | English |
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