Beautiful children
By: Charles Bock
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780719596209; 9780719524424
Subjects: Social conditions; Missing children; Fiction
Description: One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator; a painfully shy young artist; a stripper; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a scheming gutter punk; and a band of misfit runaways.