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Synopsis
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 13-year-old Artemis Slake, assaulted by the hungers, fears, and violence of city life, finds refuge and a means of survival in the subway tunnels from which he emerges only after a four-month withdrawal
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Patrick Harris
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Desperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground—into the sheltering depths of the New York City Subway where he ends up staying for one hundred and twenty-one days. This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit's attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world.
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"--utterly convincing in its detail and moving in its concern and admiration for the stubborn, human will to survive." -New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherTurtleback Books
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 080855445X
- ISBN 13 9780808554455
- BindingSchool & Library Binding
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages128
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