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Plume
February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
Featuring: David Case
256 pages
ISBN: 0452289378
EAN: 9780452289376
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Fiction
Rising star Meg Rosoff's highly amusing novel is about
survival, friendship and the boundaries of love
Meg Rosoff's wit and imagination are eye-popping. She is
already a star in the UK--her first novel How I Live
Now sold hundreds of thousands of copies there--and she's
won numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic. Fans of
Mark Haddon will devour Just in Case in one or two
sittings.
Up to now David Case hasn't questioned
his relatively good fortune. But a heart-pounding scare
with his much younger brother shocks him into considering
the fragility of life. He starts thinking about all of the
truly awful things that can happen in life and concludes
that Fate is out to get him.
And so he decides to
trick Fate. He changes his name and his appearance, makes
new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive
Agnes Day--all in the hope that he'll become unrecognizable
to Fate and thereby save himself from doom. With an
imaginary greyhound in tow, Justin struggles to maintain his
new image and above all, to survive in a world where tragedy
is around every corner.
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