THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTRESS
Language: English
Published by FABER AND FABER, LONDON, 2017
- Softcover
- Used
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* PUBLISHER: FABER AND FABER YEAR:2017 * ISBN/SBN: 9780571330621 * No OF PAGES: 272 * CONDITION: USED - ACCEPTABLE *OTHER: *PROOF* THE COVER IS RUBBED AND CREASED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. THE SPINE IS LIGHTLY RUBBED WITH MILD BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE, HOWEVER THERE ARE PENNED WRITTEN NOTES IN THE MARGINS. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK.
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- Title
- THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTRESS
- Author
- JASON REKULAK
- Publisher
- FABER AND FABER, LONDON
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0571330622
- ISBN 13
- 9780571330621
Wheel of Fortune presenter Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy.
Billy and his friends, Alf and Clark, know that if they can get hold of the magazine, their world will change. For ever.
But as Billy says, 'No shopkeeper in America was going to sell Playboy to a fourteen-year-old boy.'
As they set out on their mission to find the most wanted images in America, they're blissfully unaware of the dangers, dramas and garbage dumpsters that lie ahead. And of how a girl called Mary might just change one of their lives. For ever.
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Review
An Amazon Best Book of February 2017: The Impossible Fortress is one of those books—one of those rare and special few where, once you have finished it, you want all your friends to read it immediately. This is especially true if you grew up in the 1980s, because The Impossible Fortress is a coming-of-age story tucked inside a love letter to that strange and wonderful decade. The novel is set in 1987 when computer games had only recently entered our homes, Jolt cola (the predecessor of modern energy drinks) was still a thing, and Playboy magazine had countless 14-year-old boys across the country trying to get their hands on a copy of the Vanna White (of Wheel of Fortune fame) issue. Billy Martin and his two best friends are three such boys, and their pursuit of the epic magazine leads them to the local office supply store, computer whiz Mary Zelinsky, and a hero’s quest to save a princess. Author Jason Rekulak’s ability to conjure powerful adolescent feelings of friendship, first love, and that difficult place where the two collide, is impressive. Laughter comes from page after page, and some clever surprises too—all of it with a 1980s mixed tape running in the background. --Seira Wilson, The Amazon Book Review
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Happyfish Books
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