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9780374525637
The Zigzag Kid
David Grossman; Betsi Rozenberg
ISBN 10: 0374525633 / 0-374-52563-3
ISBN 13: 9780374525637
Publisher: Noonday Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
ISBN 13: 9780374525637
Publisher: Noonday Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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Nonny Feuerberg's father is the world's greatest detective, wholly dedicated to the war on crime. Nonny trains himself to follow in his father's footsteps, but to his father's dismay his wild side keeps breaking out. Then Nonny finds himself traveling on a train with the magnetic, elegant Felix Glick, international outlaw extraordinaire. Not until Felix has hijacked the locomotive and whisked Nonny off on a quest for the trademark purple scarf of the great actress Lola Ciperola does Nonny realize that he is in the hands of a kindly and fascinating kidnapper--and that although he himself knows almost nothing about his own mother, who died when he was a baby, both Felix and Lola seem to know a lot about her.
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"'The Zigzag Kid' wants to be a literary fairy tale, a mix of fantasy and realism recording Nonny's voyage to the secrets of his heart....'The Zigzag Kid' ultimately fails to compel, coming off as less than three-dimensional, and curiously unengaged. Partly this has to do with Grossman's fairy tale aesthetic, which gives the novel a contrived quality, as if its world were not quite real. More troubling is the lack of narrative tension; Nonny's most profound revelations are telegraphed pages in advance, and his path to self-awareness seems so uncontested, one wonders what the fuss is about."
David L. Ulin, Salon, 09/11/1997
Review:"Some of it is entertaining, but it tries too hard and too extravagantly. Whimsy does the work of fantasy."
Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 09/21/1997
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