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Simon & Schuster
August 2010
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Featuring: Luke Nightingale; Daniel
304 pages ISBN: 1439103208 EAN: 9781439103203 Paperback (reprint)
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On a chilly November afternoon, six-year-old Luke
Nightingale's life changes forever. On the playground across
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he encounters Daniel.
Soon the boys are hiding from dinosaurs and shooting sniper
rifles. Within hours, Luke and his mother, Claire, are
welcoming Daniel into their Upper East Side apartment -- and
their lives. Daniel and Luke are soon inseparable. With his parents
divorcing, Luke takes comfort in having a near-constant
playmate. But there's something strange about Daniel, who is
more than happy to bind himself to the Nightingales. The
divorce has cut Luke's father out of the picture, and as his
increasingly fragile mother struggles with the insidious
family depression, Daniel -- shrewd, adventurous, and
insightful -- provides Luke both recreation and refuge. As Luke grows from a child to an adolescent to a young man,
he realizes that as much as his mother needs him, Daniel
needs him more. Jealous of Luke's other attachments, Daniel
moves from gestures of friendship into increasingly sinister
manipulations. In the end, Luke finds himself in a daily
battle for control of his own life -- wondering whether he
or Daniel will emerge victorious. Brian DeLeeuw's debut is a haunting and provocative story of
a family's love and madness that you will not be able to put
down.
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