The shadow year
By: Jeffrey Ford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780061231520
Subjects: Teenage boys -- Fiction; Cities and towns -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960's, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where he can find them. Some of his free time is spent in the basement of the family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with clay figurines representing friends and neighbors. And so the time passes with a not-always-reassuring sameness--until the night a prowler is reported stalking the neighborhood.--From publisher description.