
Invisible Boy
Cornelia Read(Author)
Grand Central Publishing
Published on 6. May 2010
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-446-51134-6 (ISBN)
Description
The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In INVISIBLE BOY Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large.
Reviews / Votes
Read expertly evokes the New York City of the period, from the nearly palpable grime of Chelsea to disturbing undertones of racism and classism in the justice system. Equal parts toughness and vulnerability, Madeline is always a bracing heroine * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
668 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-446-51134-6 (9780446511346)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Cornelia Read grew up in New York, California, and Hawaii. She is a reformed debutante who currently lives in Berkeley