"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Unsworth, Scarsdale Junior High School, N.Y.Ĭopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. There's a place in fiction for teenage problems, but surely not all in one novel. The ending, in which Dillon single-handedly drives Jennifer's crazed step-father out of town, is contrived.
Jesus Christ is at one point called "a heroic dude." Dillon is too much in control of himself and the other characters to be believable. Characters keep asking "can we talk" and then prattle on with enormous presence and wisdom about the evils of society, their parents, all adults, their own sorry lot in life, and love ("There are so many crazy things, dangerous things sometimes, that we're taught to call love"). Published: New York : Greenwillow Books, 1989. Dogs are crushed by cars, the Vietnam War is rehashed. Chinese handcuffs (Book) Author: Crutcher, Chris. Beyond the first chapters there are scenes in which Dillon sprinkles his brother's ashes into the gas tanks of the cyclists who corrupted Preston and in which Stacy uses the school public address system to announce that she is indeed the mother of Preston's child. Dillon's mother walked out on his family some years before.
Dillon writes long letters to his dead brother to tell him about Stacy, who was Preston's girl and the mother of their child but who may secretly love Dillon, and Jennifer, star basketball player, whose father sexually abused her and whose stepfather, a madman, also abuses her. Dillon Hemingway is a brilliant student and athlete whose older brother, Preston, gets involved with a motorcycle gang, loses his legs in a bike accident, and later blows his head away in full view of his younger brother. Urn:oclc:728671461 Republisher_date 20120808071644 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120808015520 Scanner 9-12- There are enough plots here to fuel a soap opera for a year. Urn:lcp:chinesehandcuffs00crut_0:epub:871964ae-00bb-42bf-850b-fb04fa728441 Extramarc UCLA Voyager Foldoutcount 0 Identifier chinesehandcuffs00crut_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2989f62b Isbn 9780688083458Ĩ8045808 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL2062372M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:56:15 Boxid IA129701 Boxid_2 CH106401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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