V for Victor

Mark Childress
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342
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About this ebook

 "If you've forgotten the thrills and chills of child's play, the incendiary imagination of adolescence, Mark Childress's second novel -- a speeding bullet of a book -- will ignite your memory.  In this adventure story the hero, Victor, is sublimely lost, a celebrated ragamuffin like Huck Finn or one of Peter Pan's lost tribe."

-- Marianne Gingher, New York Times Book Review



"A crackling good adventure is tough to pull off, but Mark Childress has done just this and he's done it brilliantly.  From his lyrical opening passages, which evoke the softness of adolescent innocence, right up through his explosive finale, he never lets us come up for air.  And we never want to.  Think of the Hardy Boys if you will, but also think of Harper Lee, and early Capote.  This is a yarn spun with poetry.  This is storytelling at its best."

-- Peter Buckley, Vogue


"The whole 'great watery plain of Mobile Bay' is a world the author and his gangly hero know with a strong and lovely intimacy."

-- Philadelphia Inquirer

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5.0
1 review

About the author

Mark Childress is the author of seven novels:  A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, Tender, Crazy in Alabama, Gone for Good, One Mississippi, and Georgia Bottoms.  He lives in Key West, Florida.  

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