|
|
MAWSON, ROBERT ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
1 |
Lazarus Child MAWSON, ROBERT
United Kingdom Transworld Publishers Ltd 1999 0553507192 / 9780553507195
Good , 12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. A real Sleeping Beauty comes haltingly to life in this slick but topical New Age thriller, the second novel (but the first to be published here) by British writer Mawson. When Alison Heywood evicts her husband, Jack, from their Cambridge, England, home for sleeping with his secretary, 12-year-old Ben has to take over the chore of walking his seven-year-old sister, Frankie, to school. After ducking into a store, he emerges to see her and her playmate Isabelle struck by a van; the accident kills Isabelle and leaves Frankie in a coma. The Heywoods decide to send her to the Perlman Institute in Virginia, run by charismatic Dr. Lizzie Chase, who occasionally has success reviving comatose patients with such controversial methods as sexual stimulation, recreational drugs and heavy metal music. The metaphor of indulging kids rather than censoring them is laid on thick in this emotionally manipulative narrative. So are the digs at the self-righteous types (led by a senator whose son died at Perlman) who try to close down the Institute. Meanwhile, Frankie's family and Lizzie's clique of friends are exceptionally clever and compassionate in their fight to keep the Institute operating. Mawson hits all the bases by weaving in whatever hot issues come to hand: alternative medicine, the "right to die" and the problems of medical bureaucracy. Yet he dilutes the climax by setting it in a dim dreamscape where hypnotized Ben fights to return Frankie from "the other side." The contemporaneous, real-world abduction of Frankie and Ben from the authorities who have occupied the Institute provides a showcase for Mawson's considerable strengths: witty dialogue, savvy characters, surprise developments and rapid pacing. Naturally, by the time the little girl comes back to life, her mum and dad have patched things up, and this three-hanky resolution may well justify the novel's pre-publication interest.
Price:
6.23 AUD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MAWSON, ROBERT on Abookstop.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Agorabooks.net
MAWSON, ROBERT on Alexthefatdawg.co.uk
MAWSON, ROBERT on Alpha2omegabooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Anovelideabooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Argyleemporium.com.au
MAWSON, ROBERT on Atticbooksandtreasures.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Bellalunabooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Bibliodisia.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Bonbonbooks.co.uk
MAWSON, ROBERT on Bookhousestl.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Booknest.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Booksinrockford.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Booksnmorepa.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Booksnthingsofharlingen.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Bookyahoo.net
| MAWSON, ROBERT on C-books.co.uk
MAWSON, ROBERT on Central-bookexchange.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Coffeebreakbookstore.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Dbworldwidebooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Deansbookstore.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Dogearedpagesusedbooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Durnickbooks.co.uk
MAWSON, ROBERT on Earthlightbooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Fatcitybookstore.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Hammondsbooks.net
MAWSON, ROBERT on Kjcactus.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Leurabooks.com.au
MAWSON, ROBERT on Mokadabooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Neverwithoutabook.ca
MAWSON, ROBERT on Onceuponatimebooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Pbkpalace.com
| MAWSON, ROBERT on Peerlessbookstore.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Psychobabel.eu
MAWSON, ROBERT on Remembrancebooks.com.au
MAWSON, ROBERT on Robinsonstreetbooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Russellbooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Sackofbooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Springystreasures.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Stillwaterbooks.co.uk
MAWSON, ROBERT on Thebearbookcompany.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Thebookscouts.ca
MAWSON, ROBERT on Thriftybooks.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Treasuredoldies.com
MAWSON, ROBERT on Twicesoldtales.ca
|
|
|
