Life! death! prizes! : a novel /

"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...

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Main Author: May, Stephen, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2012.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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MARC

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