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Break of Dark (Definitions S.)
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Product Description
If there is a barrier that separates the dark unknown from the everyday world around us? If so, is it broken sometimes by the dead returning, by the undead, or by alien creatures? What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between a young student and hitch-hiker who turns out to be so much stranger than she seems? Why else should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber Blackham's Wimpey - be driven to madness, despair, even to death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? Who are Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou; the figments of Peter's imagination that become a real life nightmare for Roger and Biddy? There is St. Austin Friars, too: a church without a congregation - until a burial service, oddly arranged a month ahead, is attended by a sinister assortment of the living and the dead. And Sergeant Nice, an ordinary policeman in an ordinary seaside town faced with a series of quite extraordinary thefts; the work surely, of no human hand...
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #528535 in Books
- Published on: 2003-02-06
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'A master of the unexpected, the macabre and the beguiling twist of plot. Westall is at his most provocative and intriguing with this collection.' VAL BIERMAN
From the Back Cover
Is there a barrier dividing our everyday world from the dark unknown? If so, is it broken sometimes by alien creatures or by the dead returning?
Why else should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber be driven to madness, despair, even to death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? What is the mysterious smell in Roger and Biddy's house and what could account for the series of extraordinary thefts in Sergeant Nice's sleepy seaside town; surely the work of no human hand...?
About the Author
Robert Westall -Twice winner of the Carnegie Medal. -Winner of the Smarties Prize.
Customer Reviews
Westall living up to his reputation fairly well.
This book is a series of short stories- they are not as deep and meaningful as say, The Machine Gunners or A Time Of Fire.
Nevertheless Westall manages to provide a decent children's story in most of them. "Blackham's Wimpey" is quite a complex story.
