Falling into glory
By: Robert Westall.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Love -- Fiction.; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
First sentence: OUR JUNIOR HIGH WAS FLATENED BY A LANDMIND
Description: Seventeen year old robbie seem to have the world in the palm of his hand. In his final year of school before university, he's not only a prefect, admired for his academic brilliance, but also a fearsome athlete who uses both his mammoth stature and his ingenuity in trying to change his school's rugby team. While he experiences the liberating power of brains and brawn he also notice that he's beginning to have "a strange effect on women." And when a beautiful young woman almost twice his age, begins to notice him for more than just his mind, he follows that path leads to glimps the difference between glory and honor.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Methuen Children's Books, 1993"--title page verso.
Table of contents: label: 1:
title: playground delights
pagenum: 7