Mr. Was
By: Pete Hautman
Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780689819148
Subjects: Family problems; Time travel; Fiction
Other titles: Mister Was
Description: This involving tale of destiny, passion, and death takes teenager Jack Lund from the mysterious town of Memory, Minnesota, to the steamy jungle of World War II Guadalcanal to the sterile walls of a secret government asylum-all because of a strange metal door that changes the lives of all who pass over its threshold. After a strange encounter with his dying grandfather, a teenage boy discovers a door that sends him fifty years into the past.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.