Breaktime (A Book for new adults) - Hardcover
The story of a young man's leap into adulthood by way of his first (fantasy?) love affair.
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Refreshingly unconventional, an exciting story and a witty game played between author and reader.
It all begins with a challenge. Morgan sneers at Ditto for relying on books as his sole source of information, and defies Ditto to prove that literature is ever related to life. Ditto takes up the challenge, writing an account of what is happening to him. His father has a heart attack, he makes friends with a couple of burglars, gets involved in a drunken brawl and has a life-changing encounter with the girl of his dreams--. True? Or just a story? It's not for Morgan alone to decide--
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It all begins with a challenge. Morgan sneers at Ditto for relying on books as his sole source of information, and defies Ditto to prove that literature is ever related to life. Ditto takes up the challenge, writing an account of what is happening to him. His father has a heart attack, he makes friends with a couple of burglars, gets involved in a drunken brawl and has a life-changing encounter with the girl of his dreams--. True? Or just a story? It's not for Morgan alone to decide--
"Excruciatingly funny as well as touching." --Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherBodley Head
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0370301226
- ISBN 13 9780370301228
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages138
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Breaktime (A Book for New Adults)
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