Jack Tumor
By: Anthony McGowan.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374329556
Subjects: Tumors -- Fiction; Sick -- Fiction; Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Family life -- England -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Henry Tumour
Description: Fourteen-year-old Hector, suffering from severe headaches, is diagnosed with a brain tumor which speaks in his head, calling itself Jack Tumor and making an effort to improve Hector's home life, increase his popularity, and win him a girlfriend before the operation that will mean the end of one or both of them.
Notes: Originally published: Henry Tumour. Great Britain : Doubleday, 2006.