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Life! death! prizes! : a novel / Stephen May.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781620400012 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1620400014 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 245 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Reading group selection"--Cover. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, social services, and Oscar's own prodigal father all think, he feels certain that he is the one for the job."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Brothers > Fiction. Parents > Death > Fiction. |
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Author Notes
Life! Death! Prizes!
Stephen May's first novel, Tag , was published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader's Choice Award at the Welsh Book of the Year Awards in 2009, despite Stephen's not being Welsh. Stephen lives in Yorkshire, where he works for the Arts Council.
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