Hawkes Harbor
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005EP277K |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His new employer, the mysterious Grenville Hawke, lord of Hawkes Hall, known to Jamie as It, the Thing and the Vampire, almost kills Jamie, then goes on to enslave him for years to come. Moving back and forth through time, Hinton twists and shapes her bleak material until the story and the reader's expectations have been turned upside down. This is an adult novel, meaning that Hinton gets to write sex scenes and use the word fuck when she wants to, but the basic elements that made her 30-year-old book TheOutsiders a long-time bestseller are present in this rousing read. . Jamie Sommers is orphaned at the age of eight in 1950 and sent to live with some nasty nuns until graduating as a troubled young man to a life at sea. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This is a contemporary Treasure Island with a genre-bending twist. From Publishers Weekly Erasing age and genre barriers, pri
Possibly not suitabl for kids, depending on parents standereds. jasmine If you are reading this expecting another book from S.E. Hinton that was like her others, perhaps another coming of age story, or just a good story for your teens, this is not that book. This is still very well written, and a good story, but it isn't really for t. Great Book I really like this author. "An odd and lovely book" according to Dorothy. I got this at a library book sale and read it in two nights. What an incredibly compelling book and wonderful find. I LOVED IT. I'm pretty sure I fell in love with Jamie Sommers and maybe even Grenville a little bit. Their journey to friendship was a beautiful th
He survived foreign prisons, smugglers, pirates, gunrunners, and shark attacks. The legendary author of The Outsiders returns with her first new novel in more than fifteen years! An orphan and a bastard, Jamie grew up tough enough to handle almost anything. But what he finds in the quote town of Hawkes Harbor, Delaware, was enough to drive him almost insane—and change his life forever.