Stony River / Tricia Dower.
Stony River, New Jersey, 1955: On a sweltering June afternoon, Linda Wise and Tereza Dobra witness a disturbing scene. A pale, pretty girl who looks about their age is taken from Crazy Haggerty<U+2019>s house by two uniformed policemen. Everyone in Stony River thought Crazy Haggerty lived alone. The pale, pretty girl is about to enter an alien world, and as Tereza and Linda try to make sense of what they<U+2019>ve seen, they<U+2019>re unaware their own lives will soon be shattered as well. Set in a decade we tend to think of as a more innocent time, Stony River shows in dramatic and unexpected ways how perilous it was to come of age in the 1950s with its absent mothers, controlling fathers, biblical injunctions, teenaged longing, and small-town pretence. The threat of sexual violence is all around: angry fathers at home, dirty boys in the neighbourhood, strange men in strange cars, a dead girl, and another gone missing.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143182474 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0143182471 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 350 p. : map ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Penguin, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]). |
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Subject: | Nineteen fifties > Fiction. Teenage girls > Fiction. Dysfunctional families > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Small town life > Fiction. New Jersey > Fiction. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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Terrace Public Library | Dow (Text) | 35151000349480 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |