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Scholastic
November 2008
On Sale: November 1, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0439903467
EAN: 9780439903462
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Non-Fiction
Blundell, author of Star Wars novelizations, turns out a
taut, noirish mystery/coming-of-age story set in 1947; it's
easy to picture it as a film starring Lana Turner, who is
mentioned in these pages. When first met, 15-year-old Evie
and her best friend are buying chocolate cigarettes to
practice smoking. Evie sheds that innocence on a trip to
Florida, where her stepfather, Joe, back from the war in
Europe, abruptly takes her and her beautiful mother,
Beverly, and where Evie falls in love with glamorous Peter,
an army buddy whom Joe is none too happy to see. But after
a boating accident results in a suspicious death and an
inquest, Evie is forced to revisit her romance with Peter
and her relationships with Joe and her mother, and to
consider that her assumptions about all three may have been
wrong from the beginning. Blundell throws Evie's
inexperience into high relief with slangy, retro dialogue:
Peter calls Evie pussycat ; Beverly says her first husband
kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on
walking. Readers can taste Evie's alienation and her
yearning; it's a stylish, addictive brew. --Publisher's
Weekly
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